Orations: Philippics, 1-6 [Loeb Classical Library, 189]

Cicero; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed and trans; John T. Ramsey and Gesine Mauwald, eds

ISBN 10: 0674996348 / ISBN 13: 9780674996342

Editore: Harvard University Press, 2009

Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear on all edges of text. Dust jacket slightly worn on along spine and facing with fading along spine. Otherwise VG 321 pp. Codice articolo 759978

Riassunto:

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106?43 BCE), 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 part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, 58 survive (a few incompletely), 29 of which are addressed to the Roman people or Senate, the rest to jurors. 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. This correspondence affords a revelation of the man, all the more striking because most of the letters were not intended for publication. Six works on rhetorical subjects survive intact and another in fragments. Seven major philosophical works are extant in part or in whole, and there are a number of shorter compositions either preserved or known by title or fragments. Of his poetry, some is original, some translated from the Greek.

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

Informazioni sull'autore: D R Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard, John T Ramsey is Professor of Classics, University of Illinois, Gesine Manuwald is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London

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Titolo: Orations: Philippics, 1-6 [Loeb Classical ...
Casa editrice: Harvard University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: Rilegato
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