Collective biographies
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What is collective biography?
Most people understand biography to be a written, nonfiction account of someone else's life (in third person). It may be short or full-length. Very short biographical records often are printed in reference works, such as encyclopedias or websites. CBW does not study the minimal outlines of facts and events in such reference works. Collective biography is the term for works that present multiple short prose narratives about different individuals in the same publication. Group biographies are a subset of collective biography in which the people interacted in their lifetimes, for instance in a family or a social organization. Our bibliography lists all volumes printed in English that represent three or more women's lives in narrative form (the list is intended to be exhaustive between these dates). We have listed some published before and after these dates.
In CBW, there are a range of formats for collective biography, and a few books that have such exte
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Collective Biographies
from Antiquity to the mittpunkt Ages
Pietro ZACCARIA: Constructing Authority in Hellenistic Collective Biographies
The genre of collective biography has its roots in the Hellenistic period, when collections of biographies of different figures started to be written. Despite their importance for the later development of the genre, collective biographies penned in the Hellenistic period are not very well known, since they are only fragmentarily preserved.
After offering an overview of the different forms of Hellenistic collective biography attested in the extant fragments, the present paper will focus on a specific aspect of this kind of literature, namely, the various ways in which Hellenistic collective biographers gave authority to their own texts with the aim of defending and divulging specific views in their construction of memory.
Aaron KACHUCK : The Life of the Lives of the Caesars: Unity and Multiplicity in Suetonius&rsquo
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Collective Biography
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