Cornelius Nepos
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Cornelius Nepos: On Great Generals. On Historians. (Loeb Classical Library No. 467)
Cornelius Nepos
Manufacturer: Loeb Classical Library
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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' use of many good sources.</p>
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Brief Biographies of Great Generals.......2001-10-03
Cornelius Nepos produced a considerable literary output: history, geography, poetry, and other works including biographies of famous men. The only surviving examples of his work are a few biographies from his work "De Viris Illustribus," which he apparently modeled after Plutarch's "Lives."
The surviving pieces consist of an introduction, several biographies of non-Roman generals, and two biographies of Roman historians. The bios are brief, anecdotal, and entertaining. They probably have little in the way of historical value, but they are nonetheless worth reading.
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De viris illustribus. Kommentar. (Lernmaterialien)
Cornelius Nepos , and Ernst-Alfred. Kirfel
Manufacturer: Aschendorff, Münster
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ASIN: 3402020718 |
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Vitae Cum Fragmentis (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)
Cornelius Nepos
Manufacturer: K.G. SAUR VERLAG
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ASIN: 3598719590 |
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Written primarily in Latin, 1991 edition.
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Vitae (Oxford Classical Texts)
Cornelius Nepos
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198146175 |
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Hannibal.
Cornelius Nepos , Hans-Joachim Glücklich , and Stefan Reitzer
Manufacturer: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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ASIN: 3525716109 |
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Berühmte Männer. Mit Begleittexten. (Lernmaterialien)
Cornelius Nepos , and Ernst Rieger
Manufacturer: Buchner
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ASIN: 3766158589 |
Authors:
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Corso, Gregory
- Cortazar, Julio
- Costeloe, Diney
- Costikyan, Greg
- Coupland, Douglas
- Courtenay, Bryce
- Covito, Carmen
- Cowlin, Dorothy
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