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Sto caricando le informazioni... Corneli Nepotis Vitae (edizione 1971)di Cornelius Nepos, Eric Otto Winstedt
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Cornelio Nepote es el biógrafo latino más antiguo cuya obra sobrevive en la actualidad, o dicho de otro modo, el autor de la primera serie de biografías políticas llegada del mundo grecolatino. Su De viris illustribus tuvo como modelo a Varrón, Santra e Higino, y constaban (como mínimo) de dieciséis libros, de los que muy poco se ha conservado. Se trataba de un proyecto ambicioso: un conjunto de biografías paralelas de personalidades romanas y extranjeras que habían descollado como reyes, generales, oradores, poetas, filósofos, historiadores o gramáticos.
De estos grupos sólo nos han alcanzado las "Vidas de generales extranjeros", compuestas por 23 biografías, en las que priman las del ámbito griego –nueve del siglo V a.C. (Temístocles, Arístides, Pausanias, Milcíades, Alcibíades...) y diez de la época helenística (Dión, Epaminondas, Pelópidas, Agesilao...)–, a las que hay que sumar las de los cartagineses Amílcar y Aníbal y algunas más. Nepote no incurre en el encomio ni el panegírico simple, sino que busca la ecuanimidad necesaria según la función que él atribuía al género biográfico: aprovechar deleitando y proporcionar modelos aleccionadores.
El trabajo de Nepote influyó notablemente en las Vidas paralelas de Plutarco (publicadas también en Biblioteca Clásica Gredos).
Escasos vestigios de su obra ha dejado este indagador de vidas ajenas. Nació hacia 100 a.C. probablemente en la Galia Cisalpina; se instaló en Roma, donde se dedicó al estudio y a la erudición, no a la carrera política; atildado, se relacionó con Cicerón y Ático, en cuya villa participaba en disquisiciones intelectuales de sobremesa; murió hacia el año 27-24 a.C.
Introducción, traducción y notas de M. Segura Moreno. Revisada por J. Higueras Maldonado.