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 asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues ( or Bucolics ) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39 – 38 BC, although this is controversial.

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.

" No stronger proof ," says Pattison, " can be given of the impressions produced by this powerful philippic, dedicated to the defamation of an individual, than that it had been the source from which the biography of Scaliger, as it now stands in our biographical collections, has mainly flowed.

" D. Michael Quinn says that Smith's account is a conflation of events over several years, a typical biographical device for streamlining the narrative.

Booth's criticism can be viewed as distinct from traditional biographical criticism ( still practiced, especially among popular critics ), the new criticism that argued that one can talk only about what the text says, and the modern criticism that argues for the " eradication " of authorial presence.

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.

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

Whilst Lee has downplayed autobiographical parallels in the book, Truman Capote, mentioning the character Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, described details he considered biographical: " In my original version of Other Voices, Other Rooms I had that same man living in the house that used to leave things in the trees, and then I took that out.

Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from one of Holiday's most popular songs.

From 1990 to 1991, Kovic took part in several anti-war demonstrations against the first Gulf War, which occurred not long after the release of his biographical film.

Lavoe recorded it that same year, and it became both a big hit and Lavoe's signature song ; a biographical film, El Cantante from Lavoe took the same title.

All the older biographical notices of Valla are loaded with long accounts of his many literary and theological disputes, the most famous of which was the one with Poggio, which took place after his settlement in Rome.

Their 1997 followup, The Boatman's Call, took a radical shift away from archetypal and violent narratives to biographical and confessional songs about relationships, loss and longing, often utilizing sparse arrangements.

He took on the biographical role of Richard A. Clarke in The Path to 9 / 11.

Soon, Shyam Benegal stepped beyond traditional narrative films and took to biographical material to achieve greater freedom of expression.

Although the novel is fictional, many people took it as fact and some historians even cited it when writing biographical materials on Murrieta.

Some cautioned against reading biographical details in his writings.

* 1915: Ceux de Chez Nous ( Those at Home: biographical, home movies ) Among other celebrated persons of the era, there is a brief scene featuring Sarah sitting on a park bench and reading from a book.

Key to the affirmative reading of " Ulysses " is the biographical context of the poem.

Brooks was the central figure of New Criticism, a movement that emphasized structural and textual analysis — close reading — over historical or biographical analysis.

A premiere was held, Podammit, in which Kevin Smith hosted a variety of six podcasts, which will remain with the theatre as a live base, including Plus One 3D with his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach, Comic-Con Babble-On Theatre with Ralph Garman and Let Us Act with Jason Mewes ( in which audience members voice-act / act alongside Garman and Mewes, reading from comic books and film scripts, respectively ), as well as The ABCs of SNL with Jon Lovitz himself, an ongoing ' This Is Your Life ' style biographical interview about Lovitz's life and career.

In his essay, Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity — her political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes — to distill meaning from the author's work.

* Killer: A Journal of Murder ( novel ), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based

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.

Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based upon Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details the story of a Uruguayan rugby team who were involved in the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.

Abdul Haq Dehlvi in his Akhbar-ul-Akhyar depended upon the work for the biographical sketches of Nizam-ud-Din Auliya and the other Sufi saints.

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In addition to soliciting numerous outside reviews for each of these scholars, the Librarian called upon an expert staff of curators in the Library to conduct extensive biographical and bibliographical research as well as to gather published reviews and discussions of each candidate's work, prepare abstracts of translations of key articles from material available only in foreign languages, and provide a brief characterization and evaluation of the scholarly corpus of the candidate.

The biographical information sheet filled out for young Cody upon his arrival at MGM in February, 1938, indicated that he was a junior high school student who enjoyed history, was an active Boy Scout, lived with his parents and brother in a California bungalow, enjoyed eating filet mignon, liked to swim and play baseball, had been interviewed on NBC, and had " made personal appearances with Daddy since 3 years old.