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Book Letters to His Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780674992535
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Letters to His Friends written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Cicero

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  • Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Letters of Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cicero  Letters to Atticus  Volume 1  Books 1 2

Download or read book Cicero Letters to Atticus Volume 1 Books 1 2 written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned edition, containing text, apparatus, translation and full commentary.

Book The Letters of Cicero

Download or read book The Letters of Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classics in Progress

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  • Author : T. P. Wiseman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-26
  • ISBN : 9780197263235
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Classics in Progress written by T. P. Wiseman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.

Book Cicero

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  • Author : Anthony Everitt
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-11-30
  • ISBN : 1588360342
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book Cicero written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”—The Wall Street Journal “All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”—John Adams He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit as he was for his ruthless disputations. Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome’s most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday—when senators were endlessly filibustering legislation and exposing one another’s sexual escapades to discredit the opposition. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life as a witty and cunning political operator, the most eloquent and astute witness to the last days of Republican Rome. Praise for Cicero “ [Everitt makes] his subject—brilliant, vain, principled, opportunistic and courageous—come to life after two millennia.”—The Washington Post “ Gripping . . . Everitt combines a classical education with practical expertise. . . . He writes fluidly.”—The New York Times “In the half-century before the assassination of Julius Caesar . . . Rome endured a series of crises, assassinations, factional bloodletting, civil wars and civil strife, including at one point government by gang war. This period, when republican government slid into dictatorship, is one of history’s most fascinating, and one learns a great deal about it in this excellent and very readable biography.”—The Plain Dealer “Riveting . . . a clear-eyed biography . . . Cicero’s times . . . offer vivid lessons about the viciousness that can pervade elected government.”—Chicago Tribune “Lively and dramatic . . . By the book’s end, he’s managed to put enough flesh on Cicero’s old bones that you care when the agents of his implacable enemy, Mark Antony, kill him.”—Los Angeles Times

Book How to Run a Country

Download or read book How to Run a Country written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gathers Cicero's most perceptive thoughts on topics such as leadership, corruption, the balance of power, taxes, war, immigration, and the importance of compromise." -- Dust jacket.

Book Cicero on the Emotions

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  • Author : Marcus Tullius
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-03-05
  • ISBN : 0226305198
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Cicero on the Emotions written by Marcus Tullius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, their lists of oddly named character flaws, and by the philosophical debate that develops over the utility of anger in politics and war. Margaret Graver's elegant and idiomatic translation makes Cicero's work accessible not just to classicists but to anyone interested in ancient philosophy and psychotherapy or in the philosophy of emotion. The accompanying commentary explains the philosophical concepts discussed in the text and supplies many helpful parallels from Greek sources.

Book Life and Death

Download or read book Life and Death written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cicero  Philippic 2  44   50  78   92  100   119

Download or read book Cicero Philippic 2 44 50 78 92 100 119 written by Ingo Gildenhard and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence.

Book Cornelius Nepos  Life of Hannibal

Download or read book Cornelius Nepos Life of Hannibal written by Bret Mulligan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his tumultuous political career in Carthage, to his perilous exile and eventual suicide in the East. As Rome completed its bloody transition from dysfunctional republic to stable monarchy, Nepos labored to complete an innovative and influential collection of concise biographies. Putting aside the detailed, chronological accounts of military campaigns and political machinations that characterized most writing about history, Nepos surveyed Roman and Greek history for distinguished men who excelled in a range of prestigious occupations. In the exploits and achievements of these illustrious men, Nepos hoped that his readers would find models for the honorable conduct of their own lives. Although most of Nepos' works have been lost, we are fortunate to have his biography of Hannibal. Nepos offers a surprisingly balanced portrayal of a man that most Roman authors vilified as the most monstrous foe that Rome had ever faced. Nepos' straightforward style and his preference for common vocabulary make Life of Hannibal accessible for those who are just beginning to read continuous Latin prose, while the historical interest of the subject make it compelling for readers of every ability.

Book Defence Speeches

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  • Author : Cicero,
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-08-14
  • ISBN : 0199537909
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Defence Speeches written by Cicero, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents five of Cicero's courtroom defences, including the defence of Roscius, falsely accused of murdering his father; of the consul-elect Murena, accused of electoral bribery; and of Milo, for murdering Cicero's enemy Clodius.

Book Cicero  Epistulae ad Familiares  Volume 1  62 47 B C

Download or read book Cicero Epistulae ad Familiares Volume 1 62 47 B C written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Shackleton Bailey's edition of Cicero's letters to Atticus, also published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series, has been generally recognized as an outstanding achievement. Now Professor Shackleton Bailey presents his edition of the second major body of Cicero's correspondence - his letters to his friends. Unlike the Atticus volumes this edition contains no translation (this will be published elsewhere), which has made it possible to gather all the letters and commentary into only two volumes. The introduction, which includes a reassessment of the manuscript tradition, is followed by a completely revised text and apparatus criticus. The commentary covers many problems of text, interpretation, history, prosopography, and letter-chronology. Both volumes contain indexes. This edition is intended for use by students and specialists in Roman literature and history.

Book Life of Atticus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cornelius Nepos
  • Publisher : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Life of Atticus written by Cornelius Nepos and published by Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. Hackett Publishing Company is the exclusive distributor of the Bryn Mawr Commentaries in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

Book The Tusculan Disputations of Cicero

Download or read book The Tusculan Disputations of Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epistolae Ad Familiares

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  • Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Publisher : Sagwan Press
  • Release : 2018-02-08
  • ISBN : 9781377082851
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Epistolae Ad Familiares written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Towards a Text of Cicero  Ad Atticum

Download or read book Towards a Text of Cicero Ad Atticum written by David Roy Shackleton Bailey and published by Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: