The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography

Koen De Temmerman, Professor of Classics and European Literature, Ghent University

Koen De Temmerman is a Professor of Classics and European Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Crafting Characters: Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (OUP 2014) and the co-editor of Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization (Cambridge 2016, with K. Demoen) and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden 2018, with E. van Emde Boas).

Part I. Introduction
1. Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions and Concepts, Koen De Temmerman
2. What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography, Sean A. Adams
3. Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity, Jeffrey Benecker
4. Popular Biography, Ioannis M. Konstantakos
5. Jewish Biography, Joseph Geiger
6. Christian Biography, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Part II. Reading Biographies
7. Fifth-Century Preliminaries, Christopher Pelling
8. Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece, Takis Poulakos
9. Xenophon of Athens, Noreen Humble
10. Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography, Tiziano Dorandi
11. Nepos' Life of Atticus, Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the Genre of Political Biography in the Age of Augustus, Rex Stem
12. Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus, Christopher Whitton
13. Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Aristoula Georgiadou and Michele A. Lucchesi
14. Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes, Luc Van der Stockt
15. Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men, Dennis Pausch
16. The Alexander Romance, Corinne Jouanno
17. Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax), Graham Anderson
18. The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius, Adam Kemezis
19. Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives, Stephen White
20. A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and The Life of Constantine, James Corke-Webster
21. Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography, Michael Stuart Williams
22. Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion, Jason K?nig
Part III. Tracing Biographees
23. Homer, Suzanne Sa?d
24. Statesmen, Jacqueline Klooster
25. Sophists, Kendra Eshleman
26. Philosophers, Graeme Miles
27. Holy Men: Wonderworkers, Apostles and Saints, Danny Praet
28. Martyrs, Koen De Temmerman and Danny Praet
29. Monks, Mark Edwards
Part IV. Cultures
30. Syriac, Muriel Debi?
31. Coptic, Arietta Papaconstantinou
32. Armenian, S. Peter Cowe
33. Arabic, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
Part V. Media
34. Biographical Monuments: Displaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypt, Elizabeth Frood
35. Engraved Lives: Biographical Material in Epigraphical Sources, Christof Schuler and Florian R. Forster
36. Depicted Lives: The Role of The Visual Arts in Sophistic Self-Representation, Zahra Newby
37. Triumphant Lives: Portraits, Statues and Triumphal Arches in Imperial Rome, Eric Varner
Part VI. Reception
38. Byzantium, Martin Hinterberger
39. The Medieval West, Lars Boje Mortensen
40. The Italian Renaissance, Thomas Hendrickson
41. The 17th and 18th Centuries, Enrica Zanin
42. After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of Greek and Roman Poets in the Long Twentieth Century, Nora Goldschmidt