Download or read book Cicero Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius written by Robert A. Kaster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. The speech provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period and is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action. -;A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic. Its account of recent history provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period; its depiction of public meetings, demonstrations, and violence are highly pertinent. to the current debate on the place of 'the crowd in Rome in the late Republic'; the speech is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action. -;...constantly enlightening and extremely broad in its scope... - Bryn Mawr Reviews
Download or read book Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cicero defended Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence in early March, 56 B.C.E., intending to discharge the obligation he owed for Sestius's efforts as tribune the previous year to win his restoration from exile. Because Cicero based his defence on an ample account of recent Roman political history and a 'survey' of the commonwealth's current condition, it is among the longest of his extant speeches. It is also arguably the most important of his political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic." "Though Cicero of course did not know it at the time, it was to be his last significant public performance as an independent political agent before the upheaval that followed Caesar's murder; in little more than a month Caesar and Pompey would meet at Luca, and Cicero would be kept on a short leash until the outbreak of civil war. The speech's account of recent history and of the men who made it provides any student of Rome with a full and fascinating way into the period. Because so much of the account concerns public meetings, demonstrations, and outbursts of violence, it is highly pertinent to the current debate on the place of the crowd in Rome in the late Republic'; more generally, the speech - with its energy, drama, and broad scope - is among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action. This new translation and commentary make this important text accessible to a new generation of readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Vatinium written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro Sestio was one of a number of speeches that Cicero delivered after his recall to help those who were being prosecuted in part because of their efforts on his behalf. In the speech, Cicero defends Publius Sestius, who, according to Cicero, had assisted him in keeping an eye on his fellow consul C. Antonius during the Catilinarian conspiracy and who was instrumental in Cicero's return from exile. Cicero was but one member of Sestius' defense team, and, as such, his speech does not outline the case - a job ceded to the orator Hortensius.
Download or read book Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero on Behalf of Publius Cornelius Sulla written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 64 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.
Download or read book Pro Sestio written by Marco Tulio Cicerón and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero on Behalf of Publius Cornelius Sulla Translated by John R King written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero on Behalf of Publius Cornelius Sulla Classic Reprint written by John R. King and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero on Behalf of Publius Cornelius Sulla Which of us supported Vargunteius? No one, not even my friend Quintus Hortensius, although he was the only man who had defended him before when he was tried for bribery. For he no longer thought that he was bound to him by any tie of social obligation, when Vargunteius, by the enormity of his crime, had broken all the bonds which bind men to each other. Which of us thought that Servius Sulla, or Publius Laceas, or his brother Marcus, or Gaius Cornelius ought to be defended? Which of the men on these benches supported them? Not one. And why? Because in all other cases good men, if they are connected with a defendant, think that he should not be deserted even if guilty; but when the charge is of such a character, that you would be defending a man whom you suspect to be involved in the crime of treason against his mother country, then you are liable, not only to be charged with want of principle, but to the risk of being infected with his guilt. Take the case of Autronius. Was not he deserted by the members of his guild? By those who belonged to the same sacred college by his old friends, of whom he had once possessed a very full supply and indeed by all who are in the position of leaders in the State? More than this, did not many of them do harm to his cause by their evidence? For they had come to the conclusion that his treason was so rank, that so far from using their influence for its concealment, they were bound to do their best in exposing and bringing it to light before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero on Behalf of Publius Cornelius Sulla written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Catilinarians written by D. H. Berry and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he substantially revised them before publication, rewriting some passages and adding others, all with the aim of justifying the action he had taken against the conspirators and memorializing his own role in the suppression of the conspiracy. How, then, should we interpret these speeches as literature? Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time? In this, the first book-length discussion of these famous speeches, D. H. Berry clarifies what the speeches actually are and explains how he believes we should approach them. In addition, the book contains a full and up-to-date account of the Catilinarian conspiracy and a survey of the influence that the story of Catiline has had on writers such as Sallust and Virgil, Ben Jonson and Henrik Ibsen, from antiquity to the present day.
Download or read book The speeches written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Cicero written by C. E. W. Steel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Download or read book Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason written by Jed W. Atkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific philosopher who also held Rome's highest political office, Cicero was uniquely qualified to write on political philosophy. In this book Professor Atkins provides a fresh interpretation of Cicero's central political dialogues - the Republic and Laws. Devoting careful attention to form as well as philosophy, Atkins argues that these dialogues together probe the limits of reason in political affairs and explore the resources available to the statesman given these limitations. He shows how Cicero appropriated and transformed Plato's thought to forge original and important works of political philosophy. The book demonstrates that Cicero's Republic and Laws are critical for understanding the history of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law. It concludes by comparing Cicero's thought to the modern conservative tradition and argues that Cicero provides a perspective on utopia frequently absent from current philosophical treatments.
Download or read book Beyond the Battlefields written by Edward Bragg and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Battlefields explores the relationship between warfare and society in the Graeco-Roman world through the various lenses of history, art, literature and archaeology. The study of ancient warfare often evokes images of crusty old scholars pouring over battle tactics and strategy. This book, a collection of thirteen essays by young scholars, examines the political, social, economic and artistic affects of war in ancient society in Greece and Rome, from Homeric times to the sixth century AD. Essays focus on a wide range of topics from espionage and ancient spin doctors to fantasies of peace in the Iliad and triumphal plants. Each article in this book presents the next scholarly generation’s new and dynamic approach to ancient warfare and seeks to demonstrate how much there is still to learn and understand about ancient society and warfare if we venture beyond the battlefields. “This volume represents a new wave of interest in warfare as a far more than merely military phenomenon.” Professors Brian Campbell and Hans Van Wees, excerpt from the Introduction.
Download or read book The Radicalization of Cicero written by Katherine A. East and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that tradition in the early Enlightenment. Cicero Illustratus itself is the first subject for inquiry, mined for what its deliberately erudite and colorfully polemical passages of scholarly stratagems reveal about Ciceronian scholarship and the motives for exploring it within the context of early Enlightenment thought. It also includes an analysis of the role played by the Ciceronian tradition in the broader political and radical movements that existed in the Enlightenment, with particular attention paid to Cicero’s unexpectedly prominent position in major political and philosophical Republican and Erastian works. The subject of this book together with the conclusions reached will provide scholars and students with crucial new material relating to the classical tradition, the history of scholarship, and the intellectual history of the early Enlightenment.
Download or read book Cicero and the People s Will written by Lex Paulson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells an overlooked story in the history of the will, a contested idea in both politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will as it would become in Western thought and who invents the idea of 'the will of the people'. In a single word – voluntas – he brings Roman law in contact with Greek ideas, chief among them Plato's claim that a rational elite must rule. When the republic falls to Caesarism, Cicero turns his political argument inward: will is a force to win the virtue in the soul that was lost on the battlefield, the marker of inner freedom in an unfree age. Though his vision of a free republic failed in his time, Cicero's ideal of rational elitism has shaped and fractured the modern world – and Ciceronian creativity may yet save it.
