1. Chapter I: Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution.
2. Chapter II: Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: “What is Truth?”.
3. Chapter III: Biography as Representation: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives.
4. Chapter IV: Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius.
5. Chapter V: Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels.
6. Chapter VI: Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius’s Life of Saint Antony.
7. Chapter VII: Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co.
7. Chapter VIII: Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co.
8. Conclusion: “Beauty is Terror”.