{"product_id":"books-cornelius-nepos-by-cornelius-nepos","title":"Cornelius Nepos","description":"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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674784194833,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780674995147.jpg?v=1781535651","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/books-cornelius-nepos-by-cornelius-nepos","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}