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OverviewThe Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos, Rex Stem presents Nepos as a valuable witness to the late Republican era, whose biographies share the exemplary republican political perspective of his contemporaries Cicero and Livy. Stem argues that Nepos created the genre of grouped political biographies in order to characterize renowned Mediterranean figures as role models for Roman leaders, and he shows how Nepos invested his biographies with moral and political arguments against tyranny. This book, the first to regard Nepos as a serious thinker in his own right, also functions as a general introduction to Nepos, placing him in his cultural context. Stem examines Nepos' contributions to the growth of biography, and he defends Nepos from his critics at the same time that he lays out the political significance and literary innovation of Nepos' writings. Accessible to advanced undergraduates, this volume is addressed to a general audience of classicists and ancient historians, as well as those broadly interested in biography, historiography, and political thought. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. Rex StemPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780472038800ISBN 10: 047203880 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Nepos and His Corpus Chapter 2. Nepos among His Contemporaries Chapter 3. Nepos the Political Biographer Chapter 4. Nepos the Exemplary Biographer Chapter 5. From Political History to Exemplary Political Biography Conclusion: Readership and Relevance Bibliography Index Locorum Index of Modern Scholars General IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRex Stem is Assistant Professor of Classics, University of California, Davis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |