Three lives : Alcibiades, Dion, Atticus
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Three lives : Alcibiades, Dion, Atticus
Bristol Classical Press, 1987
Available at 5 libraries
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First published in 1958 by Bell & Hyman
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer who lived in the first century BC. His simple style of writing has made him a comparatively easy and popular author for use in Latin classes at early school level. This book contains the Latin text of his Lives of Alcibiades, Dion and Atticus, with a short historical introduction and illustrations.
This edition contains three of Nepos' short biographies, and aims to provide beginners with an early means of escape from synthetic Latin. There is a useful general introduction, and further introductions to each Life, a short English summary before each chapter, and annotation that helps with both subject matter and points of syntax and grammar which might present difficulties to the intelligent beginner. The volume ends with a full index of proper names and a comprehensive vocabulary. The lives of Alcibiades, Dion and Atticus were selected for their literary associations and to emphasise continuity between the worlds of Greece and Rome.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. The Author
II. Historical Background
Text
Alcibiades
Dion
Atticus
Notes
Index of Proper Names
Vocabulary
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