02715oam 22005654 450 99619923610331620230213224047.00-674-99514-7(CKB)3820000000012264(SSID)ssj0001418294(PQKBManifestationID)11881271(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001418294(PQKBWorkID)11386518(PQKB)11057014(OCoLC)692541943(MaCbHUP)hup0000567(EXLCZ)99382000000001226420141025d1929 my 0engurcn||||||txtccrOn great generalsOn historians /Cornelius Nepos ; with an English translation by J.C. RolfeCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,2014.1 online resourceLoeb Classical Library ; 467First published (with Florus) 1929; this separate edition 1984.Includes index.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.Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings--which included poems, moral examples from history, a chronological sketch of general history, a geographical work, Lives of Cato the Elder and Cicero, and other biographies--are lost. Extant is a portion of his De Viris Illustribus: (i) part of his parallel lives of Roman and non-Roman famous men, namely the portion containing lives of non-Roman generals (all Greeks except three) and a chapter on kings; and (ii) two lives from the class of historians. The lives are short popular biographies of various kinds, written in a usually plain readable style, of value today because of Nepos's use of many good sources.Classical biography Early works to 1800Classical biography(OCoLC)863465fastGenerals(OCoLC)939841fastHistorians(OCoLC)957686fastStatesmen(OCoLC)1131990fastGreecefastRome (Empire)fastClassical biography Classical biographyGeneralsHistoriansStatesmenNepos Cornelius180708Rolfe John Carew1859-1943,MaCbHUPTLCBOOK996199236103316On great generals2362577UNISA