Latin biography.
By: Chapters by Edna Jenkinson [and others] Edited by T. A. Dorey.
Series: Studies in Latin literature and its influence
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
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.