Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of
study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and
history more generally. In particular biographies offer important
insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the
self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance
in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity
and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts
which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal
narrative categories such as time, space and character are
constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize,
underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and
fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only
to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader
narratological approaches to ancient texts.
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