Harvard University Press, 1993. Paperback. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. (5.55 x 8.28 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index of passages, and index of names. xii, 143 pp.
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ISBN: 0674200411

Tracing the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C., Arnaldo Momigliano asks fruitful questions about the origins and development of Greek biography. By clarifying the social and intellectual implications of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography, he contributes to an understanding of a basic dichotomy in the Western tradition of historical writing. The Development of Greek Biography is fully annotated, and includes a bibliography designed to serve as an introduction to the study of biography in general.

This classic study is now reissued with the addition of Momigliano’s essay “Second Thoughts on Greek Biography” (1971).

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