Latin biography
By: chapters by Edna Jenkinson [and others] Edited by T. A. Dorey.
Contributors: Jenkinson, Edna.
Series: Studies in Latin literature and its influence
Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Latin prose literature -- History and criticism.; Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism.; Literary form -- History -- To 1500.; Biography as a literary form.; Rome -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Nepos; an introduction to Latin biography, by E. Jenkinson.; title: Quintus Curtius Rufus, by E. I. McQueen.; title: Plutarch, by A. J. Gossage.; title: Suetonius and his influence, by G. B. Townend.; title: The Augustan history, by A. R. Birley.; title: William of Poitiers: Gesta Guillelmi, by T. A. Dorey.; title: Two biographies by William of Malmesbury, by D. H. Farmer.; title: The lives of St. Francis, by R. Brooke.