Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- I. CONCEPTION AND ORIGIN OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- II....
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- I. CONCEPTION AND ORIGIN OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- II. AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- I. Autobiographical Tomb-inscriptions of the Egyptians -- II. Records of Deeds of Babylonian and Assyrian rulers -- III. First-personal narrative in ancient Oriental Tales -- Part I THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE POST-HOMERIC AND CLASSICAL EPOCHS IN GREECE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE DISCOVERY OF INDIVIDUALITY: RELATION OF THAT EVENT TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- II. AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN CLASSICAL ATTIC LITERATURE -- I. The Socratic shaping of Personality and the Platonic History of the Soul -- II. Plato's "Seventh Epistle" -- III. Isocrates' autobiographical "oration in court" -- Part II AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE HELLENISTIC AND GRECO-ROMAN WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN POLITICAL LIFE -- I. The Monumental Record of Deeds and the Hellenistic type of Political Memoirs -- II. The development of Autobiography in the aristocratic families of the Roman Republic -- III. Autobiographical works of Roman statesmen down to the time of Augustus -- IV. Autobiographies of the Roman Emperors -- V. The Monumental Record of Deeds of the Emperor Augustus -- II. WRITERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND CHARACTER ANALYSIS -- I. The Aristotelian Conception of Man and the literary shaping of Biography -- II. The literary practice of Self-revelation among poets -- the autobiographical poem Propertius and Ovid -- III. Autobiographies of Hellenistic writers Nicolaus Damascenus. Josephus -- IV. Authors' accounts of their Works and Studies Galen. Cicero's Brutus -- NOTES.
