Ancient Greek biographical works

biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

book by Diogenes Laërtius

thumb|Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 1803 English edition. The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written around 370 BC by Xenophon, the Athenian-born soldier, historian, and student of Socrates. The Latinized title Cyropaedia derives from the Greek Kúrou paideía (), meaning The Education of Cyrus. Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre mirrors for princes. In turn, the Cyropaedia strongly influenced the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli's The Princ

poem

autobiographical work by Josephus

work by Philostratus

work by Xenophon

satire by Syrian Greek writer Lucian