Cicero, Marcus Tullius Primary Author mixed material bibliography Cambridge Harvard university Press 1930 monographic en English

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512 p Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek. Business Law 878.01089780674992658 Podomoro University Digital Library 878.0108 Cic p 2018.02.3113 My Library 878.0108 Cic p 2018.02.3114 My Library 878.0108 Cic p cicero.jpg.jpg 3240 2018-02-06 10:44:01 2018-02-19 10:54:42 machine generated