2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Plutarch's parallel biographies of paired Greek and Roman statesmen and soldiers — written 100 CE — the primary source for ancient Greek and Roman biography and the most influential collection of biographical writing in Western history.
The ancient Mesopotamian epic — the oldest surviving substantial literary work — following the demigod king Gilgamesh and his companion Enkidu through friendship, death, and the search for immortality — the first great meditation on mortality.