Fragmentary Speeches by Cicero - ISBN: 9780674997622
Hardcover
Lost words, potent ideas: Cicero’s fragmented speeches illuminate Roman history.

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  • Hardcover

    512 pages

  • Release Date

    14 October 2024

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Summary

Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In Cicero’s political speeches and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the important part he …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780674997622
ISBN-10:067499762X
Author:Cicero, Jane W. Crawford, Andrew R. Dyck
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Imprint:Harvard University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:512
Release Date:14 October 2024
Weight:366g
Dimensions:31mm x 169mm x 114mm
Series:Loeb Classical Library
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Critics Review

Cicero’s fragmentary speeches have now joined the texts available through the Loeb Classical Library, and done so in excellent style. – Catherine Steel * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

About The Author

Cicero

Jane W. Crawford is Professor of Classics, Emerita, at the University of Virginia.

Andrew R. Dyck is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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