It is possible that these verses or others like them were misunderstood by ancient writers, leading to the biographical tradition which has come down to us.

Virgil's biographical tradition is thought to depend on a lost biography by Varius, Virgil's editor, which was incorporated into the biography by Suetonius and the commentaries of Servius and Donatus, the two great commentators on Virgil's poetry.

Although the commentaries no doubt record much factual information about Virgil, some of their evidence can be shown to rely on inferences made from his poetry and allegorizing ; thus, Virgil's biographical tradition remains problematic.

The biographical tradition says that Virgil and Maecenas took turns reading the Georgics to Octavian upon his return from defeating Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

A considerable amount of information about the life of Archilochus has come down to the modern age via his surviving work, the testimony of other authors and inscriptions on monuments, yet it all needs to be viewed with caution — the biographical tradition is generally unreliable and the fragmentary nature of the poems doesn't really support inferences about his personal history.

Bosworth, in line with the epigraphic tradition of modern classical studies, points out that Arrian is a secondary source of Alexander's biographical data: " Arrian is prone to misread and misinterpret his primary sources, and the smooth flow of his narrative can obscure treacherous quicksands of error ".

The author, whose true name and place of origin are probably concealed beneath the impenetrably enigmatic biographical tradition concerning " Lycophron ," probably used the name, and some of the literary substance, of Lycophron, not in emulation, but as an ironic reminiscence of the earlier writer, who had combined the practice of tragedy and the elucidation of comedy.

In 1664 he published at London an edition of the Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius that contains an unedited anonymous life of Aristotle ; this life was known as ' Vita Menagiana ' before the critical edition by Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1957 ; reprinted New York, Garland, 1987, pp. 80 – 93 ) with the title ' Vita Hesychii ' ( the attribution to Hesychius of Miletus is controversial ).

The biographical tradition of the tenth century Byzantine ( Suda ) defines Theon as " the man from the Mouseion "; however, both the Library of Alexandria and the Mouseion may not have existed in the fourth century as Ammianus Marcellinus ( Historia 22. 15, 12-13 ), writing in 378 refers to the Serapeum Library as thing of the past, destroyed in the time of Julius Caesar.

As is not uncommon in the biographical tradition, later biographers failed to notice that earlier biographers did not give an accurate representation of events.

Following the tradition of his nomarch ancestors, Intef II erected a biographical stele in the entrance of his tomb, which relates the events of his reign.

The biographical tradition for both individuals claims that they were involved in the overthrow of tyranny at Eresos.

In each, the patriarch first narrates his own life, focusing on his strengths, virtues, or his sins, using biographical material from both the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition.

A brief biographical note is found in Aelius Donatus's Life of Virgil, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by Suetonius.

Hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Critical scholarship in the 19th century distinguished between the " biographical " approach of the synoptics and the " theological " approach of John, and began to disregard John as a historical source.

Aubrey initially began collecting biographical material to assist the Oxford scholar Anthony Wood, who was working on his own collection of biographies.

His most important work was this biographical dictionary of artists, Notizie de ' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, of which the publication began in 1681 and continued after his death.

In 1826 he wrote a preface to a translation of Stewart's Moral Philosophy, demonstrating the possibility of a scientific statement of the laws of consciousness ; in 1828 he began a translation of the works of Reid, and in his preface estimated the influence of Scottish criticism upon philosophy, giving a biographical account of the movement from Francis Hutcheson onwards.

He began a compilation of biographical notes of Cambridge University alumni, a work which was continued by his son, John Archibald Venn ( 1883 – 1958 ) and published as Alumni Cantabrigienses in 10 volumes from 1922-1953.

In 1669, Aubrey began work on his collection of biographical sketches, which became known as his " minutes of lives " ( Brief Lives was a 19th-century editorial title ).

Although it was a widely known " open secret " that Hatfield was gay, he never publicly came out as such during his lifetime, and his sexual orientation only began to be acknowledged on the record in media and biographical sources after his death.

Besides his History, Belknap began work on an American biographical dictionary in 1779.

During the Han dynasty, tomb inscriptions () containing biographical information on deceased people began to be written on stone tablets rather than wooden ones.

Johnson began writing his " lives ", or individual biographical pieces, in 1740.

He began writing children's literature in 1976 and has since published over 30 books, which are often biographical.

The earliest biographical dictionaries initially focused on the lives of the prophets of Islam and the their companions, with one of the earliest examples being The Book of The Major Classes by Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, and then began documenting the lives of many other historical figures ( from rulers to scholars ) who lived in the medieval Islamic world.

The National Library of Medicine has a copy of Maqsud Ali Tabrizi's Persian translation of this biographical dictionary which states that he began translating al-Shahrazuri's treatise in 1602CE, though other sources state that he undertook the translation in 1605CE at the request of Jahangir.

The first half of the century had seen the development of the biographical mémoire ( see below ), and by the 1670s this form began to be used in novels.

According to biographical elements in the Guide of radiesthesia, his career as occultist began the day before his first communion, when he found a 1902 brochure from a New York City correspondence course in hypnosis in his grandparents ' attic.

In a biographical movie about Robinson called " 42 ," due for release in April 2013, former MLB pitcher C. J. Nitkowski plays the role of Leonard pitching against Jackie.

* De Imperatoribus Romanis, an online biographical encyclopedia of the Roman emperors from 27 BC to 1453 AD

* Profiles of Righteous and Honorable People Through the Ages-Collection of 400 compact biographical studies of worthy people from the second millennium BC to the 1360s.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

The third book is about the deeds of archbishop Adalbert and is considered a milestone in medieval biographical writing.

The amount of biographical information regarding Aelbert Cuyp is tremendously limited.

Kitchen is currently compiling a biographical monograph on Al Capp.

Because of the accompanying biographical annotations on the authors and composers, the work is an important historical source.

There is no biographical information given about the prophet in the Book of Haggai, so we know no personal information about him.

There is no biographical information on the prophet Habakkuk ; in fact less is known about him than any other writer of the Bible.

Literary criticism is included in detail in the bibliographies of various biographical works, specialised treatments and exhibit catalogues.

A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

* It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view ; it pokes fun at mostly famous people

In Chinese terms, the book changed the format of histories from biographical style ( 紀傳體 ) to chronological style ( 編年體 ), which is better suited for analysis and criticism.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

Contains an autobiographical afterword by C. L. Moore, and a biographical introduction by Del Rey, which is carefully noncommittal about the influence of her personal life on her writing.

In order to study them the full range of biographical knowledge available today on Kraepelin is necessary ( see e. g. Burgmair et al., I-VII ).

A one-name study is a collection of vital and other biographical data about all persons worldwide sharing a particular surname.

ISBN 0-7316-8792-2 ( biographical rather than musicological in nature ; is wholly devoid of staff-notation extracts ; but corrects some errors found in Z. K. Pyne and elsewhere ).

Other biographical information, however, is likely to be untrue ( see Legends ).

The question of the historicity of Homer the individual is known as the " Homeric question "; there is no reliable biographical information handed down from classical antiquity.

Another area of focus in the study of hadith is biographical analysis (‘ ilm al-rijāl, lit.

Hansie is a biographical film released in 2008 about the life of Hansie Cronje that aims to portray him in a positive light and as a victim of circumstance lured by an evil system of illegal gambling and bookmakers from India.

Continuity with prior games in the Quake series and even Doom is maintained by the inclusion of player models related to those earlier games as well as biographical information included on characters in the manual, a familiar mixture of gothic and technological map architecture and specific equipment ; for example, the Quad Damage power-up, the infamous rocket launcher and the BFG super-weapon.

Sima's Shiji is respected as a model of biographical literature with high literary value and still stands as a " textbook " for the study of classical Chinese.