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  2. De casibus virorum illustrium - Wikipedia

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    De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of the classical tradition of historiography.It deals with the fortunes and calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio's own time in the fourteenth century. [1]

  3. De viris illustribus - Wikipedia

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    De Viris Illustribus, meaning "concerning illustrious men", represents a genre of literature which evolved during the Italian Renaissance in imitation of the exemplary literature of Ancient Rome. It inspired the widespread commissioning of groups of matching portraits of famous men from history ( homini famosi ) to serve as moral role models.

  4. Aetia (Callimachus) - Wikipedia

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    The books are framed by two well known narratives: Book 3 opens with the Victory of Berenice. Composed in the style of a Pindaric Ode, the self-contained poem celebrates queen Berenice's victory in the Nemean Games. [13] Enveloped within the epinician narrative is an aetiology of the games themselves. [14]

  5. Andrew Lang - Wikipedia

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    The Valet's Tragedy (1903), which takes its title from an essay on Dumas's Man in the Iron Mask, collects twelve papers on historical mysteries, and A Monk of Fife (1896) is a fictitious narrative purporting to be written by a young Scot in France in 1429–1431.

  6. Works and Days - Wikipedia

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    Works and Days (Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, romanized: Érga kaì Hēmérai) [a] is a didactic poem written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines.

  7. Origin myth - Wikipedia

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    List of national founders – List of people credited with creating the state; Mythomoteur – Constitutive myth of an ethnic group; National myth – Inspiring narrative about a nation's past; Origin story – Plot device; Pourquoi story – Narrative that explains why something is the way it is, generally fabulous or mythical

  8. Parallel Lives - Wikipedia

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    Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.

  9. Just-so story - Wikipedia

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    In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative [1] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation.