Letters to Atticus: Letters 90-165a (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Buch 24 von 32: Loeb Classical Library: Cicero

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

 
9780674995727: Letters to Atticus: Letters 90-165a (Loeb Classical Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674995724 ISBN 13: 9780674995727
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

In letters to his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except, perhaps, his brother. These letters, in this four-volume series, also provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history--years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

When the correspondence begins in November 68 BCE the 38-year-old Cicero is a notable figure in Rome: a brilliant lawyer and orator, who has achieved primacy at the Roman bar and a political career that would culminate in the Consulship in 63. Over the next twenty-four years--to November 44, a year before he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony--Cicero wrote frequently to his friend and confidant, sharing news and discussing affairs of business and state. It is to this corpus of over 400 letters that we owe most of our information about Cicero's literary activity. And taken as a whole the letters provide a first-hand account of social and political life in Rome.

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D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674995724
ISBN 13 
9780674995727
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
350
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Harvard University Press
https://www.hup.harvard.edu

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