The hagiographic genre of the life of Alexander (Plutarch’s Comparative biographies)
... ancient biography with its topos of private life and its entertaining and instructive functions serves as a nutrient substrate for the formation of the genre of bios.
Averintsev, S. S., 1994. Good Plutarch tells about heroes, or happy marriage of a biographical genre and moral philosophy. In: Plutarkh. Sravnitel'nye zhizneopisaniya: v 2 t. [Plutarch. Comparative biographies: in 2 tons]. Vol. 1. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo «Nauka». pp. 637—653 (in Russ.).
Averintsev, S. S., 1973. Plutarkh i antichnaya biografiya: ...
