On Duties

Cicero

ISBN 10: 0674990331 / ISBN 13: 9780674990333

Edité par Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA / London, England, 1997

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From the Loeb Classical Library collection, a Latin/English side-by-side text, translated by Walter Miller. Originally published in 1913, this is a 1997 reprinting. Dust jacket has color loss in some places (especially but not only along edges and the spine), as well as an old retail sticker on the back. There is an impression on the back of the dust jacket that was deep enough to press slightly into the cloth hardcover with gilt monogram, which is otherwise in good very good condition with only color fading at edges and corners. Pages are in excellent condition with no highlighting, notes, or marks. We are a Benedictine Abbey and Seminary library in Oregon. We appreciate your support.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: On Duties
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA / London, England
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: latin
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674990331
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674990333
• Reliure: Cloth
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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Synopsis

The ethics of a statesman.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

À propos de l?auteur

Samuel Walter Miller (1864-1949) taught classics and archaeology at Missouri, Stanford, and Tulane, and as a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens led the first American excavation in Greece.