Cornelius Nepos - author of the 1st century. BC e., contemporary and friend of Cicero Catullus and Atticus. The proposed publication is the surviving part of Nepos’s extensive work “On Famous People”; biographies of famous commanders and famous political figures (Miltiades, Hannibal, Themistocles, Aristides, etc.), as well as lesser-known but prominent historical figures (Thrasybulus, Iphicrates, Chabria) are given. Roman historians are represented by the names of M. Portius Cato T. Pomponia Attica . Nepot's stories are replete with vivid incidents and provide a brief “history in person”. For historians, philologists, researchers of antiquity and a wide range of readers.