Letters to Friends, Volume II: Letters 114-280 (Loeb Classical Library 216)

Shackleton Bail, D. R.

ISBN 10: 0674995899 / ISBN 13: 9780674995895

Edité par Harvard University Press, 2001

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Letters to Friends, Volume II: Letters 114-280 (Loeb Classical Library 216)
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674995899
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674995895
• Reliure: Hardback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 308 grammes

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Synopsis

The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.

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

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.