by Arthur P. Urbano
Catholic University of America Press, 2013
Cloth: 978-0-8132-2162-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-2163-2
Library of Congress Classification B517.U73 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 186.4

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity