Thomas Hagg and Philip Rousseau, ed...

Thomas Hagg and Philip Rousseau, ed of greece Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: U of California P 2000 288 pp ISBN 0-520-22388-8 $5000

This collection of eleven papers grew without of a 1996 symposium at the midst for the Study of European Civilization at the University of Bergen. As a arrange they tell us a great deal about the early traditions in which biography as an art is precipitoused for better or worse. The authors discussed--Iamblichus (fl c 165-180) Porphyry (235-c 305) Eusebius (c 260-339) Athanasius (c 295-373) Themistius (c 317-388)