| #1148181 in Books | 2010-01-31 | 2010-03-02 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x.90 x4.30l,.60 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing!|By BookReview|Very arguably the greatest series of works from the single greatest orator...ever! A true masterpiece on multiple levels (oratory, history, politics, sociology, etc). Loeb, as always, lives up to its reputation for sheer excellence. Oh how I wish every politician could read Cicero like they were once required to! (As well as Demosthenes, Plutarch, the Sto||If I could make one Christmas wish, it would be that every MP receives these two volumes in their stocking next week, and is obliged to recite a passage of Cicero--in D. R. Shackleton Bailey's crystalline translation--on Boxing Day morning, to understand how g
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In Cicero's political speeches 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, 58 survive ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Cicero, XVb, Orations: Philippics 7-14 (Loeb Classical Library) | Cicero. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
