Cornelius Nepos

by Nepos, Cornelius

• ISBN13: 9780674995147
• ISBN10: 0674995147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-07-01
• Publisher: Loeb Classical Library

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's use of many good sources.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
THE BOOK ON THE GREAT GENERALS OF FOREIGN NATIONS
Preface	2	(4)
Miltiades	6	(16)
Themistocles	22	(20)
Aristides	42	(4)
Pausanias	46	(10)
Cimon	56	(6)
Lysander	62	(6)
Alcibiades	68	(24)
Thrasybulus	92	(8)
Conon	100	(8)
Dion	108	(18)
Iphicrates	126	(4)
Chabrias	130	(6)
Timotheus	136	(8)
Datames	144	(20)
Epaminondas	164	(20)
Pelopidas	184	(8)
Agesilaus	192	(14)
Eumenes	206	(24)
Phocion	230	(8)
Timoleon	238