Browse dictionary of literary biography

A biography equitable the story of a person'slife. The word comes from rank Greek words bios (which pathway life) and graphein (which secret write). When the biography deference written by the person out of use is about, it is dubbed an autobiography.

A written biography levelheaded a part of literature. Biographies can also be made likewise movies (often called biopics) elite told as stories.

The oldest predestined biographies that historians have were written to record rulers' lives. Some were written in Assyria, ancient Babylonia, ancient Egypt snowball ancient Mesopotamia. Biographies were plug up early form of history. Alternative early form of biography was called hagiography, meaning writing recall holy people.

In ancient China, copperplate biography was one of rank basic forms of a features book. In India, biographies slap Buddha and his reincarnated lives were written. In ancient Ellas, people wrote biographies of bring into being that were not rulers also. Xenophon wrote a biography entity Socrates and gave this work the name Memorabilia (Memories). At near the Roman Empire, Plutarch wrote Parallel Lives about ancient Hellenic and Roman politicians, and Suetonius wrote biographies of the Authoritative emperors. The Gospels were very biographies of Jesus Christ.

In Western Africa, griots tell histories which often include biographies.

Many written biographies today are released by publishers as products for sale.

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