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DIHLE, A., Studien zur griechischen Biographie. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1970. 2nd corr.impr. 121p. Sewn. Card board cover. Signature from J. Mansfeld on title page. Series: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, Dritte Folge, nr.37. ‘This interesting study traces the development and analyses the technique of biography as a Greek literary form. The three main themes which Dihle discusses and exemplifies are: (i) the consideration of an individual’s total career and its total significance in the development of biographical writing, (ii) the characterisation of an individual through the simple events of his everyday life and (iii) the Peripatetic systematisation of ethical concepts and terms by means of which individuals were described in and after the Hellenistic period. (…) Chapter IV contains the central thesis of the work, carefully and clearly expounded. It shows how the conceptual foundation of the later Greek biographical technique, as exemplified particularly in Plutarch’s Lives, was laid under the influence of Peripatetic ethical analysis. (…) The book is well written and its central thesis is sound.’ (A.J. GOSSAGE on the first edition in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1958, pp.139-140). € 25.00 (Antiquarian)