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IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. The First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]
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As part of the continuation of Felix Jacoby’s monumental collection of fragmentary Greek historiography, this volume, by Pietro Zaccaria, contains new editions of the Hellenistic biographers of the first century BC and the Hellenistic biographers of uncertain date. More than one hundred fragments from biographies of philosophers, statesmen, and orators, penned by eleven Greek biographers, are critically edited, translated into English, and provided with comprehensive commentary. For each biographer, an introduction discusses the author’s dates, life, and works. By offering the first complete corpus of late Hellenistic biography preserved in fragments, this volume contributes to our knowledge and understanding of Hellenistic historiography and of ancient biography as a whole.
Pietro Zaccaria, Ph.D. (2018), is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at KU Leuven, Ancient History Research Unit. He has published on ancient biography, historiography, and the history of ancient philosophy.
''Zaccaria expounds the existing literature on these authors, which is sometimes mountainous, with lucidity and good judgment; where he follows prior opinions, or dissents from them, his arguments are clear.'' Luke Pitcher in
BMCR 2022.11.21.
This volume is relevant to ancient historians, classicists, historians of ancient philosophy, and to all who take an interest in biography.