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Record Nr.

UNISA996199236103316

Autore

Nepos Cornelius

Titolo

On great generals : On historians / / Cornelius Nepos ; with an English translation by J.C. Rolfe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-674-99514-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Loeb Classical Library ; ; 467

Soggetti

Classical biography

Generals

Historians

Statesmen

Greece

Rome (Empire)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published (with Florus) 1929; this separate edition 1984.

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-c. 24 BCE)is the earliest biographer in Latin whose work we have. Extant are parts of his De Viris Illustribus, including biographies of mostly Greek military commanders and of two Latin historians, Cato and Atticus.