The commanders of the fifth century BCE / Cornelius Nepos ; introduction, text, and commentary, Francesco Ginelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nepos, Cornelius, author.

Contributor:

Ginelli, Francesco, editor.

Standardized Title:

Vitae excellentium imperatorum. Latin (Ginelli)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Generals--Greece--Biography.

Generals.

Generals--Biography.

Nepos, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum.

Nepos, Cornelius.

Vitae excellentium imperatorum (Nepos, Cornelius).

Greece.

Genre:

Biographies.

Classical biography.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Commanders of the 5th century BCE

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English and Latin text.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Preliminary remarks on the author

2. The De Viris Illustribus

3. The Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium and its arrangement

4. Models and structures of Nepos' biographies: the influence of encomia

4.1. The internal structure of Nepos' biographies: Leo and subsequent theories

4.2. Nepos and his model: the encomium

5. Narratology and the Liber

6. Themes

7. The sources of the first eight biographies

8. Nepos' style and grammar

9. The manuscript tradition and the present edition

Conspectus Siglorum

Text

Commentary

Miltiades

Themistocles

Aristides

Pausanias

Cimon

Lysander

Alcibiades

Thrasybulus.

Notes:

"I wrote the first version of this book as a PhD thesis"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-331) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780198836131

0198836139

OCLC:

1255462795

Publisher Number:

99992324354