Fragmentary Speeches
$50.40
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2024
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 |
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| 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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