Cicero: Pro Milone

The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving every major political figure of the day. Although Cicero's defense failed, the published speech remains one of his finest, a fascinating document from a turbulent time, full of interest both historical and rhetorical. This edition, aimed at students and scholars alike, provides readers with the help that they need to appreciate the speech as a literary masterpiece and a historical text. Including a comprehensive introduction and a newly constituted Latin text, it provides detailed treatment of Cicero's language, style, and rhetorical techniques, as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech.

“'The text takes up roughly 30 pages; the commentary takes up 260 pages - over eight pages for each page of text. It is hardly necessary to say that K. has covered, often at length, every point, whether textual, grammatical, syntactical, prosodic, or historical that the student could seek guidance on... It is hard to imagine any need for another commentary on Pro Milone for many years.' Colin Leach, Classics for All”

'The text takes up roughly 30 pages; the commentary takes up 260 pages - over eight pages for each page of text. It is hardly necessary to say that K. has covered, often at length, every point, whether textual, grammatical, syntactical, prosodic, or historical that the student could seek guidance on… It is hard to imagine any need for another commentary on Pro Milone for many years.' Colin Leach, Classics for All
'The book will also appeal to an audience with diverse scholarly interests due to its inclusion and excellent treatment of a variety of topics from historical context to rhetorical theory …' Georgina Longley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'His explanations are both enlightening and stimulating for the expert, but Keeline also offers enough more basic help for the less advanced reader … Keeline's commentary covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of the most varied aspects of Cicero's Miloniana in a balanced manner, reflecting the current state of research and presents it in a linguistically appealing way…' Marc Steinmann, Exemplaria Classica (translated from German)
'The commentary is a milestone in the research on Cicero's Pro Milone. It can equally satisfy the beginner and the advanced reader.' Jochen Sauer, Historische Zeitschrift (translated from German)

THOMAS J. KEELINE is an Associate Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. There he teaches courses in Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as Classics courses in translation. He has previously published The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire: The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend (Cambridge, 2018), as well as articles and reviews in the fields of Latin literature, lexicography, metrics, the history of classical scholarship and the classical tradition, textual criticism, commentary-writing, digital approaches to Classics, and language pedagogy.

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