Twenty Lives is a historical book written by Cornelius Nepos, a Roman biographer and historian, in 1907. The book consists of biographies of twenty famous Greeks and Romans, including Themistocles, Alcibiades, Aristides, Cimon, Pausanias, Lysander, Nicias, Agesilaus, Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Timoleon, Dion, Iphicrates, Phocion, Demosthenes, Alexander the Great, Eumenes, Demetrius, Pyrrhus, and Hannibal. Each biography provides a detailed account of...