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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's use of many good sources.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: On Great Generals. On Historians
• Author: Cornelius Nepos
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780674995147
• ISBN: 0674995147
• ID: 04636996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 278 g
• Dimensions: 116 × 169 × 23 mm

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