Cornelius Nepos / with an English translation by John C. Rolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nepos, Cornelius.

Contributor:

Rolfe, John Carew, 1859-1943.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 467.

Loeb classical library ; 467

Language:

English

Latin

Physical Description:

xvii, 348 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1984.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Parallel text in Latin and English, with introduction and notes in English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674995147

0434994677

OCLC:

24147334