Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger (9) - Rilegato

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Pliny

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ISBN 10: 1616400501 ISBN 13: 9781616400507

Casa editrice: Cosimo Inc, 2010

Riassunto

Translator names not noted above: E.S. Shuckburgh, William Melmoth, F.C.T. Bosanquet Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume IX features: · three works by Roman philosopher MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO (106 BC-43 BC): the dialogue On Friendship, a timeless consideration of that happy state; the essay On Old Age, his reflections on aging and death; and his Letters, including his thoughts on matters both personal and political · the Letters of Roman lawyer PLINY THE YOUNGER (61-c. 112), which remain some of the most valuable firsthand documents we have of the period, particularly since he moved in politically important circles; the letters include his eyewitness account of the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cosimo Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1616400501
• ISBN 13: 9781616400507
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 444
• Redattore: Eliot Charles W.