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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity.

The Philosophical Life Biography and the

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      Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
      Publication Date: 30/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9780813221625, 978-0813221625
      ISBN10: 0813221625
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

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      Book Synopsis
      Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity.

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