Download or read book Politeness and Politics in Cicero s Letters written by Jon Hall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theories of politeness, it argues that formal relationships between powerful members of the elite were constrained by distinct conventions of courtesy and etiquette. By examining in detail these linguistic conventions of politeness, Jon Hall presents new insights into the social manners that shaped aristocratic relationships. The book begins with a discussion of the role of letter-writing within the Roman aristocracy and the use of linguistic politeness to convey respect to fellow members of the elite. Hall then analyzes the deployment of conventionalized expressions of affection and goodwill to cultivate alliances with ambitious rivals and the diplomatic exploitation of "polite fictions" at times of political tension. The book also explores the strategies of politeness employed by Cicero and his correspondents when making requests and dispensing advice, and when engaging in epistolary disagreements. (His exchanges with Appius Claudius Pulcher, Munatius Plancus, and Mark Antony receive particular emphasis.) Its detailed analysis of specific letters places the reader at the very heart of Late Republican political negotiations and provides a new critical approach to Latin epistolography.
Download or read book Philosophical Life in Cicero s Letters written by Sean McConnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and exciting study of Cicero's philosophical activities and the enduring interest of his ethical and political thought.
Download or read book Cicero in Letters written by Peter White and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero in Letters analyzes letter-writing habits and political preoccupations that define the correspondence between Cicero and his contemporaries during a period of crisis at the end of the Roman Republic.
Download or read book The Language of Roman Letters written by Olivia Elder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores in depth how bilingualism in the correspondence of elite Romans illuminates their lives, relationships and identities.
Download or read book Cicero s Letters to His Friends written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1978 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero s Cilician Letters written by Susan Treggiari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Cicero's Cilician letters in new English translations to support ancient history students.
Download or read book Selected Letters written by Cicero, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Cicero's letters not merely documents in detail Cicero's career but simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. It provides a vivid picture of daily life and politics in Rome, the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero's vain resistance to the rise of Mark Antony.
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:
Download or read book Cicero select letters written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero Select Letters written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated selection of the letters of the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with an introduction and extensive notes by scholar Albert Watson. These letters offer a fascinating glimpse into the politics, culture, and daily life of ancient Rome, and highlight Cicero's wit, wisdom, and rhetorical skill. 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 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. 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 Letters of a Roman Gentleman written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatises on Friendship and Old Age written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Treatises on Friendship and Old Age" by Marcus Tullius Cicero. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Letters to His Friends written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin & English texts.
Download or read book The Orations of Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicero Letters to Atticus Volume 3 Books 5 7 9 written by Cicéron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned edition, containing text, apparatus, translation and full commentary.
Download or read book Roman Etiquette of the Late Republic As Revealed by the Correspondence of Cicero Classic Reprint written by Anna Bertha Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roman Etiquette of the Late Republic as Revealed by the Correspondence of Cicero The following thesis is based primarily on a study of Cicero's correspondence, with a view to discovering what society in that age considered the proper attitude and conduct of one individual towards another. The investigation has not dealt with the moral question whether a man's treatment of his fellow was just or unjust, but simply with what the social organization accepted as the customary or conventional act under given circumstances. We are concerned with manners, not morals, and these manners may seem good or bad according as they please or offend our own taste, but they are equally important in establishing a code of etiquette which may be said to belong to a certain age of society. The purpose, then, of this paper is to illustrate through a collation of passages from Cicero, and from other writers of that period, the Roman idea of etiquette which prevailed during the closing years of the Republic. The term etiquette is used in its broadest sense, to include not only courtesy and good manners but the observance of conventional proprieties, whether they be loose or strict; not only social duties and their proper form, but also customs which fashion allowed, even if it did not endorse them. The letters of Cicero give one the impression that he and his contemporaries had a delicate sense of appreciation of the niceties of courtesy, and that while their standards do not measure up to what the twentieth century would consider correct, there did exist a certain amount of conventional decorum, and a more or less general regard for it in so-called polite society. 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 Reading Cicero s Final Years written by Christoph Pieper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final years have shaped Cicero’s reception in an special way, as they have condensed and enlarged themes that his life stands for: on the positive side his fight for freedom and the republic against mighty opponents (for which he would finally be killed); on the other hand his inconsistency in terms of political alliances and tendency to overestimate his own influence. For that reason, many later readers viewed the final months of Cicero's life as his swan song, and as representing the essence of his life as a whole. The fixed scope of this volume facilitates an analysis of the underlying debates about the historical character Cicero and his textual legacy (speeches, letters and philosophical works) through the ages, stretching from antiquity itself to the present day. Major themes negotiated in this volume are the influence of Cicero’s regular attempts to anticipate his later reception; the question of whether or not Cicero showed consistency in his behaviour; his debatable heroism with regard to republican freedom; and the interaction between philosophy, rhetoric and politics.
