ancient Greek biography
C33487
concept
Ancient Greek biography is a narrative prose genre that recounts and interprets the lives, character, and moral exempla of notable individuals within the cultural, political, and philosophical contexts of ancient Greece.
Observed surface forms (3)
- Greek biographical work ×1
- ancient biographical collection ×1
- ancient biographical work section ×1
Instances (32)
- Life of Theseus
- Life of Romulus
- Life of Lycurgus
- Life of Numa Pompilius
- Life of Solon
- Life of Publicola
- Life of Themistocles
- Life of Camillus
- Life of Fabius Maximus
- Life of Alexander
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Life of Dion
- Life of Brutus
- Life of Timoleon
- Life of Aemilius Paulus
- Life of Crassus
- Life of Pyrrhus
- Life of Marius
- Life of Lucullus
- Life of Agesilaus
- Life of Pompey
- Life of Pelopidas
- Life of Aratus
- Life of Galba
- Life of Alcibiades
- Life of Cimon
- Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus
- Life of Marcellus
- Life of Nicias
- Book 10 on Epicurus via concept surface "ancient biographical work section"
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Lives of the Ten Orators (for historical Cephalus and his family)
via concept surface "ancient biographical collection"
surface form: Lives of the Ten Orators
- Porphyry's Life of Plotinus