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Subject(s)

• Statesmen—Rome—Correspondence [Browse]
• Authors, Latin—Correspondence [Browse]
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius—Correspondence [Browse]

Translator

• Walsh, P. G. (Patrick Gerard) [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Summary note

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. - ;'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!'. Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement b

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

Latin

Contents

Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text and Translation; Note on Roman Names; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Cicero; Maps; SELECTED LETTERS; Concordance of the Letters with the Standard Collections; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of Terms; Index

ISBN

• 0-19-160751-7
• 0-19-183834-9
• 1-281-86570-2
• 9786611865702
• 0-19-155025-6

OCLC

476244697

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