Selected Works, 9780140440997
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Cicero’s wisdom: politics, philosophy, morality, shaping Western thought for millennia.

Selected Works

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    30 December 1963

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Summary

Cicero: Defender of Rome, Architect of Liberty

A selection of Cicero’s speeches and letters that have profoundly influenced the Western liberal tradition of political thought. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman, and defender of Rome’s Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence. His pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have powerfully influenced European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140440997
ISBN-10:0140440992
Series:Penguin Classics
Author:Cicero, Michael Grant
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Edition:1st
Release Date:30 December 1963
Weight:203g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 15mm
About The Author

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 bc), Roman orator and statesman, was born at Arpinium of a wealthy local family. Having been educated in Rome, by 70 bc he had established himself as a leading barrister and was beginning a successful political career. Cicero received honors usually reserved only for the Roman aristocracy and was one of the greatest Roman orators.

Michael Grant has been successively Chancellor’s Medallist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University, first Vice-chancellor of Khartoum University, President and Vice-chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast and President of the Classical Association.

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