8 It is my aim here to explore sōphrosynē as one of those motifs.
These texts, which differ in substantial ways, share a number of common formal elements that allow us to treat them together: they all concentrate on special men who are supposed to have rare philosophical and/or spiritual gifts and a connection to the divine they all have a footing in history they aim to praise, idealise and make an example of their subjects and they use a number of common thematic motifs in order to achieve their purpose.
8 On the difficulty of defining ‘hagiography’ as a genre, see Van Uytfanghe (2009, 348-349), to whom (.)ģFocusing on the imperial period, the present chapter looks at the contexts of sōphrosynē in pagan philosophical lives, as well as in early Christian biographical texts. letters, mythical and proverbial stories), and they present heroes of exceptional spiritual gifts, who are called to face powerful opponents, over whom they duly prevail. 4 These narratives have a number of distinct common features: they narrate lives, they are structured in episodes (some of which are thought more or less independent), they employ various forms of storytelling (e.g. Aside from the ‘novel’, the VA’s literary context includes the tradition of stories about holy men and wonder-workers (such as we find in pagan philosophical biographies 2 and in the apocryphal Christian literature), of fictitious biography more generally (including popular narratives, such as the lives of Aisop and Alexander, 3 who both display wise-men features), and even of a ‘gospel genre’, associated with ‘spreading the word’ about the life and works of a holy man, chiefly as a form of religious propaganda. These features are shared between the VA and pseudo-biogra (.)ġAs mentioned in the Introduction, the VA belongs to a complex narrative tradition that may be defined and described in varied terms and ways. 
4 See Tiede (1982) Talbert (1978, 1646) on philosophers revered as gods (he mentions the Tyanean and (.). 3 On the affinities between these two works, see Jouanno (2002, 208-209). 2 See Schirren (2005, 12) for examples and references (and ibid., 69-211 for the philosophos bios as (.). The Los Angeles Times reported that bugs including a lack of sound, incompatibility with certain graphics cards and system crashes were present in as many as 10 percent of the first shipment of discs. 
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