The book is designed as a major contribution to the emerging subject of the history of biography, and of life writing more generally. To date, most treatments of this subject have been organised chronologically and, as a result, have missed the important connections that exist between biographies written in different periods. In particular, they have missed the extent to which biographers from the eighteenth century onwards have drawn on a range of classical models and examples. Modern biography, this study contends, has its roots in the ancient world. weiterlesen