A Research On Greece-Roman (from Isocrates To Suetonius) Biography Relating To The Characteristics Of Literature And Historiography-The Origin Of Academic Controversy Revolved About The Attribution Of Biography

The origin of academic controversy revolved about the attribution of biography has a long time, actually the character of the biography was derived from both Literature and historiography. One aspect of biography is canceled amount to cancel the biography itself. Biography should be a form of culture, an independent outside literature and history of the genre.Because of the literature and historiography of the biography related to lots of factors, the characteristics of biography has been great concern, such as moral functions, selection of historical, character details and imagine fiction. From the perspective of a historical, the development of biography writing was with the characteristics of literature and historiography, we can find the proof from its source,theme, content and value. The mature biography theory was short in the Greece and Roman, the writing of biography had been involved on literature and historiography.In some sense, biography writing was affected by the background ecological and cultural, for example, philosophical concepts, ethical tendencies, even nationalism.Greece-Roman biography showed a trend that the self-develop of biography was from its origin to the evolution and maturity.Meanwhile, the characteristics of biography involving on Literature and history is highly correlated with biographer and his attainment on the historiography,literature and philosophy. We should make more and more exploration in order to find the origin of things or phenomenon about the biography. Due to the characteristic of biography involving on literature and historiography, we need to use the material of anthropology and archaeology.From the current situation, we can make the final decision that the characteristic of biography involving on literature and historiography is resulting from comprehensive function of multiple factors. Ancestor, hero and human worship, own memorial instincts and individual writing all make a great difference. So this paper made a research form the origin of biography to the Greece and Roman, including Isocrate, Xenophon, Nepos, Plutarch, and so on. This paper also made an exploration on the origin of the biography and find out the academic controversy revolved about the attribution of biography.