Download or read book For Marcus Caelius 56 BC written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a speech by the renowned Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus when he was charged with political violence, one of the most severe crimes in Republican Rome. Caelius had once been Cicero's student but, lately, was a political rival. This speech is one of the best examples of Roman oratory known to date.
Download or read book Cicero pro Caelio A Selection written by Georgina Longley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Caelio, 51–58, 61–68, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of 33–50, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level. Pro Caelio is one of Cicero's finest and funniest speeches. In 56 BC, he defended Marcus Caelius Rufus who was being prosecuted on charges of violence, including the attempted poisoning of Roman noblewoman Clodia with whom Caelius previously had an affair. Cicero's primary tactic was to blacken the character and reliability of Clodia, whom he depicts as the woman scorned, prosecuting Caelius out of revenge. Drawing on characters well known from Roman comedy, Cicero casts Caelius as the decent young man victimized by the aggressive courtesan, thereby shaming Clodia and glossing over the more awkward charges levelled at his client. Supporting resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026
Download or read book Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro Caelio is a speech given on April 4, 56 BC, by the famed Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus, who had once been Cicero's student but more recently was a political rival.
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Marcus Caelius Rufus written by Clare Marie Grubb and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero on the Attack written by Joan Booth and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.
Download or read book The Poems of Catullus written by Gaius Valerius Catullus and published by Scripsi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... At non effugies meos iambos. II Hunc lucum tibi dedico Consecroque Priape, Qua domus tua Lampsacist Quaque lege Priapi. Nam te praecipue in suis Urbibus colit ora Hellespontia ceteris Ostriosior oris. NOTES i The dedication is to Cornelius Nepos, an amiable man but dull historian. It was probably intended as a preface to some only of the poems. 1. dorw, am I giving? more vivid than am I to give? though the latter is of course possible; cf. the well-known in qua te quaero proseucha? (Juv. iii. 296). 2. pumice. Cf. xxii. 8. 6. iam turn cum. Emphatic. Nepos found time to praise him even when engaged on his own great work. 7. Onme aevum, i.e. the Chronica of Nepos, a history of all time. 8. laboriosis, full of research. 9. quidquid hoc libelli, qualecunque. Self-depreciatory; whatever its worth, whatever its kind. 10. patrona virgo, Le. the Muse. The sudden invocation is not unnatural. Bergk's correction, patroni tit ergo, that for its patron's sake, is ingenious and gives additional point, but it is not necessary. 11. perenne, through the years; or perhaps unaging, an intentional surprise after plus uno. II To Lesbia's sparrow. 3. primum digitum, finger-tip. 5,6. When the bright lady of my longing love is minded to try some charming play (Munro). 8, 9. dolor, grief; e.g. at being parted from her lover, ardor, the passion of love. 9. credo, ah yes lit. I believe it, for Catullus has felt the same grief. Iia A fragment, or possibly complete in itself. Lesbia may have sent him an apple, a common lover's gift (cf. lxv. 19), and this may be his acknowledgment. puellae, Atalanta, who stopped to pick up the go...
Download or read book The Jugurthine War written by Sallust and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the only surviving works by a man who held various public offices in Rome and was a friend of Caesar's and an opponent of Cicero's.
Download or read book Clodia written by Julia Dyson Hejduk and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman history Noble and notorious, the flamboyant Clodia Metelli was the object of passion in poetry and prose in ancient Rome and appears in more written sources than any other woman of her day. Cicero, in a famous oration, branded her a whore yet in private correspondence mentions seeking her help. Her stormy affair with the poet Catullus—the Western world’s first recorded romance with a real and richly characterized woman—had a profound influence on erotic literature. Bringing together works by Cicero, Catullus, and others in which Clodia plays a part, Julia Dyson Hejduk has produced a striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman history. Her accurate and accessible English translations include not only all the classical texts that mention Clodia, but also a substantial selection of Roman erotic poetry by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. While many sourcebooks offer only small illustrative excerpts, Clodia provides most sources in their entirety, such as the Pro Caelio of Cicero, nineteen complete letters, all of Catullus’s poems on “Lesbia” (his pseudonym for Clodia), and many subsequent love elegies. Hejduk’s translations please the ear while remaining faithful to the original meaning. Her introduction reviews topics in classical culture and themes in Roman love poetry, placing the texts in their literary, social, and historical context and making them accessible to high school students and undergraduates. Notes, glossary, and bibliography make the book a well-rounded teaching tool.
Download or read book Concatenatio Catulliana written by Paul Claes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrangement of Catullus’ Carmina is one of those controversial issues that in-cite respectable commentators to take up extreme positions. In 1914, the German scholar Bernhard Schmidt described the collection as ‘a wild chaos’. Forty-five years later, his compatriot Otto Weinreich riposted with the laconic statement: ‘Chaos? Cosmos!’ Former attempts to detect a structure in the collection were based on rather subjective assumptions. While translating Catullus' poetry into Dutch, Dr Claes detected an objective foundation: the principle of concatenation, i.e. the recurrence of motifs and phrases in consecutive poems. The generality of this phenomenon proves that the poet conceived of the Carmina as a coherent collection, in which the poems fit like links in a chain. The discovery of this coherence suggests a new reading of Catullus, which has also implications for the constitution of the text.
Download or read book Lives of the Romans written by Joanne Berry and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred biographies reveal the mightiest civilization of the ancient world through the lives of its citizens. At its peak Rome's empire stretched across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, yet it started as a primitive encampment above a riverside marsh. This book spans the great chronological and geographical sweep of the Roman age and brings the reader face to face with those who helped create the empire, from consuls and commanders to ordinary soldiers, voters, and taxpayers. An extraordinary range of viewpoints is explored in these biographies. A centurion and a plasterer's wife share pages with the orator Cicero and the scholar Pliny the Elder, while a vestal virgin shares a chapter with Antinous, the boy-lover of Hadrian. Augustine, the church patriarch, and Constantine, Rome's first "Christian" emperor, rub shoulders with Julian the Apostate and Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, leader of the pagans. Roman women were the most liberated in the ancient world. They could wield massive power and influence, yet are often overlooked. Meet Servilia, Caesar's lover; Sulpicia, the teenage poet; Amazonia, the sword-swinging gladiator; and Cloelia, the girl who escaped captivity by swimming the Tiber. Lavishly illustrated with magnificent works of art, including portraits, sculptures, and Renaissance paintings of Roman scenes, this book reveals the real-life stories behind the rise and fall of Rome. Philip Matyszak teaches Roman History for the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge. He has written extensively on the ancient world. Joanne Berry teaches ancient history at Swansea University and is the author of The Complete Pompeii.
Download or read book Restless Youth in Ancient Rome written by Emiel Eyben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restless Youth in Ancient Rome presents an inclusive portrayal of the perceptions the Romans had of youth and of the role of this age group in a wide variety of domains - philosphy, literature, education, the law, the army, politics, leisure, amorous pursuits and family life. Emiel Eyben considers the involved farrago of thoughts, feelings and behaviour of youth throughout the period and shows how youth itself put its stamp on its environment.
Download or read book How to Win an Argument written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest orator All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct—and often floundering or failing as a result—we’d win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, rhetoric. How to Win an Argument gathers the rhetorical wisdom of Cicero, ancient Rome’s greatest orator, from across his works and combines it with passages from his legal and political speeches to show his powerful techniques in action. The result is an enlightening and entertaining practical introduction to the secrets of persuasive speaking and writing—including strategies that are just as effective in today’s offices, schools, courts, and political debates as they were in the Roman forum. How to Win an Argument addresses proof based on rational argumentation, character, and emotion; the parts of a speech; the plain, middle, and grand styles; how to persuade no matter what audience or circumstances you face; and more. Cicero’s words are presented in lively translations, with illuminating introductions; the book also features a brief biography of Cicero, a glossary, suggestions for further reading, and an appendix of the original Latin texts. Astonishingly relevant, this unique anthology of Cicero’s rhetorical and oratorical wisdom will be enjoyed by anyone who ever needs to win arguments and influence people—in other words, all of us.
Download or read book Studies in Latin Language and Literature written by Thomas Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-07-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism. E. D. Francis gives a history of the words prae and pro, as adverb, preposition and prefix. H. D. Jocelyn surveys the distribution and differing uses of quotations from Greek poetry in Cicero's prose writings and D. F. S. Thomson takes a fresh look at the manuscript tradition of Catullus. The remaining six articles deal with later authors and are divided equally between the poets and the historians: a reading of Horace's Roman Odes and their relation to the other odes in which he addressed the Roman people; a demonstration of the internal coherence of a Tibullan elegy and two Juvenal satires; a review of disputed readings in the OCT of Livy IX; an analysis of the structure of the prologues to the Annals, Histories and Agricola to cast light on Tacitus' intentions; and a critical review of Tacitus' portrait of Germanicus, generally viewed in a sympathetic light but debated by D. O. Ross.
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.
Download or read book Selected Political Speeches written by Cicero and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocratic circles that controlled the Roman state, and became renowned for his speaking to the Assembly, Senate and courtrooms. Whether fighting corruption, quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archias or railing against Mark Antony in the Philippics - the magnificent arguments in defence of liberty which led to his banishment and death - Cicero's speeches are oratory masterpieces, vividly evocative of the cut and thrust of Roman political life.
Download or read book A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives written by Philip Matyszak and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred vivid portraits of real-life characters bring to life the highs and lows of Rome’s dramatic history. A vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not just to Rome’s most famous generals and rulers, such as Caesar and Caligula, but also to its builders, sculptors, poets, historians, gladiators, shepherds, enslaved people, and courtesans. The book begins with Faustulus, the fosterfather of Romulus and Remus, and closes with the final emperor, Romulus Augustulus. The stories of Roman women are given their due as well—from Servilia, Caesar’s lover; to Agrippina, the murderous wife of Claudius; Amazonia, the sword-swinging gladiator; and Hypatia, philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. Exploring every level of society and using the latest archaeological evidence as well as ancient texts, the authors build up a picture of what it meant to live in Ancient Rome.
Download or read book The Greatest Lives and Letters Volume 1 written by Sir John Alexander Hammerton and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABÉLARD AND HÉLOÏSE Love-Letters I.--Héloïse to Abélard II. Abélard to Héloïse III.--Héloïse to Abélard IV.--Héloïse to Abelard V.--Abélard to Héloïse HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL Fragments of an Intimate Diary Thoughts on Life and Conduct Heroism and Duty The Era of Mediocrity Lessons from the Greeks The Glory of Motherhood The Secret of Perpetual Youth The Fascination of Love Man's Useless Yearning Memories of the Golden Age Goethe Under the Lash Nothing New Under the Sun The Only Art of Peace and Rest ST. AUGUSTINE Confessions I.--Regrets of a Mis-spent Youth II.--Monica's Prayers and Augustine's Paganism III.--The Influence of St. Ambrose on Augustine's Life IV.--The Birth of a New Life V.--God's Command to Augustine and the Death of Monica JAMES BOSWELL The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. I.--Parentage and Education II--Marriage and Settlement in London III.--Poverty Stricken in London IV.--Preparation of the "Dictionary" V.--"The Rambler" and New Acquaintance VI.--Lord Chesterfield and the "Dictionary" VII.--Boswell's First Meeting with Johnson VIII.--Tours in the Hebrides and in Wales IX.--Johnson's Physical Courage and Fear of Death X.--Johnson's "Seraglio" XI.--Johnson's Humanity to Children, Servants, and the Poor XII.--The Last Year SIR DAVID BREWSTER Life of Sir Isaac Newton I.--The Young Scientist II.--The Colours of Natural Bodies III--The Discovery of the Law of Gravitation IV.--Later Years of Newton's Life JOHN BUNYAN Grace Abounding I.--To the Chief of Sinners II.--Bunyan Becomes a Preacher III.--In a Prison Cell IV.--Bunyan's Story Supplemented ALEXANDER CARLYLE Autobiography I.--In the Days of Prince Charlie II.--Literary Lions of Edinburgh III.--Scottish Social Life THOMAS CARLYLE Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell I.--Puritan Oliver II.--Regicide III.--Crowning Mercies IV.--Protector Oliver The Life of Friedrich Schiller Schiller's Youth (1759-1784) From His Settlement at Manheim to His Settlement at Jena (1783-1790) From His Settlement at Jena to His Death (1790-1805) Schiller's Character BENVENUTO CELLINI Autobiography I.--The Making of a Craftsman II.--A Soldier and Goldsmith III.--Intrigues at the Papal Court IV.--At the French Court V.--His Later Life in Florence CHATEAUBRIAND Memoirs From Beyond the Grave I.--Youth and Its Follies II.--In the Years of Revolution III.--Paris in the Reign of Terror IV.--The Army of Princes V.--Letters from the Dead THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Letters to His Son I.--On Manners and Address II.--On the Art of Pleasing III.--The Secret of Good Breeding IV.--The Fruits of Observation V.--On the Arts MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The Letters of Cicero To Atticus To Lucius Lucceius, the Historian B.C. 56 To Marcus Marius B.C. 55 To Atticus, in Rome Laodicea, B.C. 51 To Atticus, a Few Days Later Cilicia To Marcus Caelius Rufus Asia, B.C. 50 To Atticus, in Rome Athens, B.C. 50 To L. Papirius Rome, B.C. 46 To L. Minucius Basilus Rome, March, B.C. 44 To Atticus May, B.C. 44 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Biographia Literaria I.--The Nature of Poetic Diction II.--In Praise of Southey III.--Wordsworth's Early Poems IV.--The Philosophical Critic V.--What is a Poem? VI.--A Criticism of Wordsworth WILLIAM COWPER Letters Written in the Years 1782-1790 To the Rev. John Newton To the Rev. William Unwin To the Same To the Same To Mrs. Newton To the Rev. John Newton To the Same To His Cousin, Lady Hesketh To the Same To the Same To John Johnson, Esq. Obiter Dicta THOMAS DE QUINCEY Confessions of an English Opium-Eater I.--The Descending Pathway II.--Effects of the Seductive Drug III.--A Fearful Nemesis IV.--The Horrors of Dreamland V.--The Monster-Haunted Dreamer VI.--The Agonies of Sleep ALEXANDRE DUMAS Memoirs I.--Memories of Boyhood II.--Launched in Paris III.--Under Shakespeare's Spell IV.--Dumas Arrives JOHN EVELYN Diary I.--Early Years II.--Travels Abroad III.--Evelyn in England IV.--Plague and Fire V.--Fall of the Stuarts JOHN FORSTER Life of Goldsmith I.--Misery and Ill-luck II.--Through Europe with a Flute III.--Physic, Teaching, and Authorship IV.--Social and Literary Success V.--Poet, Dramatist, and Spendthrift GEORGE FOX Journal I.--His Youth and Divine Calling II.--Preaching and Persecution III.--In Perils Oft IV.--A Willing Sufferer V.--Encounters with Cromwell BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Autobiography I.--Early Education II.--Making His Way III.--The Scheme of Virtues IV.--Public Life MRS. GASKELL The Life of Charlotte Bronte I.--The Children Who Never Played II.--Girlhood of Charlotte Bronte III.--Her Life as a Governess IV.--The Sisters' Book of Poems V.--The Coming of Success VI.--Charlotte Brontë's Closing Years EDWARD GIBBON Memoirs I.--Birth and Education II.--A Happy Exile III.--To England and Authorship IV.--Soldiering and Travel V.--History and Politics VI.--A Quiet Consummation GOETHE Letters to Zelter I.--Art Greater than the Beauty of Art II.--Music and Musicians III.--"Poetry and Truth" IV.--The Birth of "Iphigenia" Poetry and Truth from My Own Life I.--Birth and Childhood II.--A Romantic Episode III.--University Life IV.--Fascinating Friendship V.--Among the Jurists Conversations with Eckermann I.--On Poets and Poetry II.--Philosophical Discussions III.--Literary Dicta IV.--"Faust" and Victor Hugo V.--On the Bible THOMAS GRAY Letters I.--The Student's Freedom II.--Travels with Horace Walpole III.--The Birth of the "Elegy" ANTONY HAMILTON Memoirs of the Count de Grammont I.--Soldier and Gamester II.--A Complete Education III.--The Restoration Court IV.--The Chevalier's Marriage NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Our Old Home I.--Consular Experiences II.--A Sentimental Experience III.--The English Vanity Fair
