Late Antique Historiography

Lives of famous men

Title(s):
  • Lives of famous men
  • Βίοι ἐνδόξων
    (Bioi endoxōn, Lives of famous men)
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Period covered:
At least 9th-8th c. B.C. (life of Lycurgus)
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
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Bibliography:
  • A. Corcella (1996) 'A new fragment of the historian Theseus'. The Classical Quarterly 90: 261-266.
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw.
  • R. Laqueur (1936) 'Theseus (2)'. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft 6A: 14.
  • J. Radicke (1999) 'Theseus: Lives of Famous Men (1078)'. Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Volume Four: Biography and antiquarian literature, A7: Biography, imperial and undated authors. Leiden: 240-247.