Creative lives in classical antiquity : poets, artists and biography / edited by Richard Fletcher, Johanna Hanink.

Part I. Opening remarks. Orientation : what we mean by 'creative lives' / Johanna Hanink and Richard Fletcher
'Lives' as parameter : the privileging of ancient lives as a category of research, c. 1900 / Constanze Güthenke
Part II. Reviving dead poets. Close encounters with the ancient poets / Barbara Graziosi
Recognizing Virgil / Andrew Laird
Part III. Lives in unexpected places. A poetic possession : Pindar's Lives of the poets / Anna Uhlig
What's in a Life? : some forgotten faces of Euripides / Johanna Hanink
Lives from stone : epigraphy and biography in classical and Hellenistic Greece / Polly Low
Part IV. Laughing matters and Lives of the mind. On bees, poets and Plato : ancient biographers' representations of the creative process / Mary Lefkowitz
The life of Aristippus in the Socratic epistles : three interpretations / Kurt Lampe
Imagination dead imagine : Diogenes Laertius' work of mourning / Richard Fletcher
Part V. Portraits of the artist. 'It is Orpheus when there is singing' : the mythical fabric of musical lives / Pauline A. Leven
The artist as anecdote : creating creators in ancient texts and modern art history / Verity Platt
Freud and the biography of antiquity / Miriam Leonard
Envoi / John Henderson.