The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography

C. Stenschke, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses This comprehensive volume offers an excellent background survey for all discussions of teh genre of the canonical Gospels and encourages a fresh appraisal of the often neglected late ancient Christian biographical tradition which, in all its variety has much to offer.

John M. Rist, Augustiniana This is a fine work and will be the standard point of reference on ancient 'biography' for decades.

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