Nemesius - Paperbackby Philip Van Der Eijk (Commentaries by), Philip Van Der Eijk (Translator), Robert W. Sharples (Commentaries by) Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD. The author was a Christian bishop; the subject is the nature of human beings and their place