Francesco Ginelli

Cornelius Nepos, the Commanders of the Fifth Century Bce

Introduction, Text, and Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a detailed commentary on the first eight lives of Cornelius Nepos' De viris illustribus, shedding new light on Nepos' biographies of the Greek commanders of the fifth century BCE (Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Lysander, Alcibiades, and Thrasybulus).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780198836131
• ISBN-10: 0198836139
• Artikelnr.: 62191722

Autorenporträt

Francesco Ginelli received his PhD in Literature and Philology from the University of Verona and is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan.

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* 1.1 Preliminary remarks on the author
* 1.2 The De Viris Illustribus
* 1.3 The Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium and its
arrangement
* 1.4 Models and structure of Nepos' biographies: the influence of
Encomia
* 1.5 Narratology and the Liber
* 1.6 Themes
* 1.7 The sources of the first eight biographies
* 1.8 Nepos' style and grammar
* 1.9 The manuscript tradition and the present edition
* TEXT
* COMMENTARY
* Miltiades
* Themistocles
* Aristides
* Pausanias
* Cimon
* Lysander
* Alcibiades
* Thrasybulus
* REFERENCES