Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch,
Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book
Professor Hagg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient
biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian
acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how creative
writers developed the lives of popular heroes like Homer, Aesop and
Alexander and how the Christian gospels grew from bare sayings to
full lives. In imperial Rome biography flourished in the works of
Greek writers: Lucian's satire, Philostratus' full sophistic
orchestration, Porphyry's intellectual portrait of Plotinus.
Perhaps surprisingly, it is not political biography or the lives of
poets that provide the main artery of ancient biography, but
various kinds of philosophical, spiritual and ethical lives.
Applying a consistent biographical reading to a representative set
of surviving texts, this book opens up the manifold but often
neglected art of biography in classical antiquity.
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