Author: Susan Treggiari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009383175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A selection of Cicero's Cilician letters in new English translations to support ancient history students.
Cicero's Cilician Letters
Author: Susan Treggiari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009383175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A selection of Cicero's Cilician letters in new English translations to support ancient history students.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009383175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A selection of Cicero's Cilician letters in new English translations to support ancient history students.
Cicero's Cilician Letters
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin letters
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin letters
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Select orations and letters of Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Cicero: Select Letters
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521295246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A collection of representative letters from Cicero's vast correspondence, with introduction and commentary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521295246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A collection of representative letters from Cicero's vast correspondence, with introduction and commentary.
Cicero in Letters
Author: Peter White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199750572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule. The first part of this study analyzes effects of the milieu in which the letters were written. The lack of an organized postal system limited the correspondence that Cicero and his contemporaries could conduct and influenced what they were willing to write about. Their chief motive for exchanging letters was to protect political relationships until they could resume their customary, face-to-face association in Rome. Romans did not normally sign letters, much less write them in their own hand. Their correspondence was handled by agents who drafted, expedited, and interpreted it. Yet every letter advertised the level of intimacy that bound the writer and the addressee. Finally, the published letters were not drawn at random from the archives that Cicero left. An editor selected and arranged them in order to impress on readers a particular view of Cicero as a public personality. The second half of the book explores the significance of leading themes in the letters. It shows how, in a time of deepening crisis, Cicero and his correspondents drew on their knowledge of literature, the habit of consultation, and the rhetoric of government in an effort to improve cooperation and to maintain the political culture which they shared. The result is a revealing look at Cicero's epistolary practices and also the world of elite social intercourse in the late Republic.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199750572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule. The first part of this study analyzes effects of the milieu in which the letters were written. The lack of an organized postal system limited the correspondence that Cicero and his contemporaries could conduct and influenced what they were willing to write about. Their chief motive for exchanging letters was to protect political relationships until they could resume their customary, face-to-face association in Rome. Romans did not normally sign letters, much less write them in their own hand. Their correspondence was handled by agents who drafted, expedited, and interpreted it. Yet every letter advertised the level of intimacy that bound the writer and the addressee. Finally, the published letters were not drawn at random from the archives that Cicero left. An editor selected and arranged them in order to impress on readers a particular view of Cicero as a public personality. The second half of the book explores the significance of leading themes in the letters. It shows how, in a time of deepening crisis, Cicero and his correspondents drew on their knowledge of literature, the habit of consultation, and the rhetoric of government in an effort to improve cooperation and to maintain the political culture which they shared. The result is a revealing look at Cicero's epistolary practices and also the world of elite social intercourse in the late Republic.
Selected letters of M. Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
Author: Catherine Steel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107469473
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became seminal texts in political theory and in the reception and study of the Classics. This Companion discusses the whole range of Cicero's writings, with particular emphasis on their links with the literary culture of the late Republic, their significance to Cicero's public career and their reception in later periods.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107469473
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became seminal texts in political theory and in the reception and study of the Classics. This Companion discusses the whole range of Cicero's writings, with particular emphasis on their links with the literary culture of the late Republic, their significance to Cicero's public career and their reception in later periods.
The Letters of Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Cicero's Cilician Letters
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cicero's Role Models
Author: Henriette van der Blom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199582939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A study of the rhetorical and political strategy adopted by the Roman orator and statesman Cicero as a newcomer in Roman republican politics. Henriette van der Blom argues that Cicero advertised himself as a follower of chosen models of behaviour from the past - his role models - and in turn presented himself as a role model to others.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199582939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A study of the rhetorical and political strategy adopted by the Roman orator and statesman Cicero as a newcomer in Roman republican politics. Henriette van der Blom argues that Cicero advertised himself as a follower of chosen models of behaviour from the past - his role models - and in turn presented himself as a role model to others.