Biography

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

Greece, Biography
Rome, Biography

Bibliography and reference

Bowder, Diana. Who was who in the Greek world, 776 B.C.-30 B.C. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. JFF 96-3888.

Bowder, Diana. Who was who in the Roman world: 753 B.C.-A.D. 476. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. *R-AB 91-7334.

Briggs, Ward W. Ancient Greek Authors. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1997. *R-AB 79-1061 v.176.

Briggs, Ward W. Biographical dictionary of North American classicists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. *R-AB 95-5058.

Briggs, Ward W. Classical scholarship: a biographical encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1990. JFF 90-855.

Fraser, P.M. and E. Matthews, eds. A Lexicon of Greek personal names. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987-. APD 88-1608.

Goulet, Richard. Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Paris: CNRS, 1989- . *R-YAE 90-2069.

Hazel, John. Who's who in the Greek world. New York: Routledge, 2000. *R-AGO 00-2220.

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth. Who's Who in the Classical World. Oxford paperback reference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. JFD 01-1667.

Lightman, Marjorie. Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women. New York: Facts On File, 2000. *R-SNE 00-2931.

Radice, Betty. Who's who in the ancient world. New York: Stein and Day, 1971. JFC 75-2008.

Salisbury, Joyce. Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c2001. JFF 01-3145.

Biographies

Toynbee, J. M. C. Roman historical portraits. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. MGH 78-1719.

Davies, J. K. Athenian propertied families: 600-300 B.C. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1971. AVH (Greece) 72-152.

Develin, Robert. Athenian officials, 684-321 B.C. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. JFE 89-4809.

Grant, Michael. The classical Greeks. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. *R-BVC 89-2958.

Grant, Michael. Greek and Latin authors: 800 B.C.-A.D. 1000. Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson, 1980. *R-AB 81-24.

Grant, Michael. The Roman emperors: a biographical guide to the rulers of ancient Rome, 31 B.C.-A.D. 476. New York: Scribner's, 1985. *R-BWH 91-7352.

Jones, A. H. M. The prosopography of the later Roman empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1971-92. JFL 72-5.

Luce, T. James. Ancient writers: Greece and Rome. New York: Scribner's, 1982. *R-NRC 89-2041.

Richard, Carl J. Twelve Greeks and Romans who changed the world. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. JFE 03-736.

Richter, Gisela M. A. The portraits of the Greeks. London: Phaidon, 1965. MGH+.

Historical and critical studies

Edwards, Mark and Simon Swain, eds. Portraits: biographical representation in the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. JFD 97-17767.

Hägg, Tomas, and Philip Rousseau. Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. JFE 02-9789.

Lamberton, Robert. Plutarch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. JFD 02-10534.

Momigliano, Arnaldo. The development of Greek biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. JFD 93-12563.

Scardigli, Barbara. Essays on Plutarch's lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. JFD 95-6866.

Stadter, Philip A., ed. Plutarch and the historical tradition. New York: Routledge, 1992. JFD 92-10052.