Cicero: Pro Milone

Edition of Cicero's best speech helping students appreciate the work as both a literary masterpiece and a historical document.

List of contents

Introduction; The Pro Milone and Cicero's career; Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and the aftermath; Historical background; Historical timeline; Argument and outline of the speech; Cicero's style; Revision and publication; Text and transmission; Text: Pro Milone; Commentary.

About the author

THOMAS J. KEELINE is an Associate Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. There he teaches courses in Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as Classics courses in translation. He has previously published The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire: The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend (Cambridge, 2018), as well as articles and reviews in the fields of Latin literature, lexicography, metrics, the history of classical scholarship and the classical tradition, textual criticism, commentary-writing, digital approaches to Classics, and language pedagogy.

Summary

Examining what is arguably Cicero's best speech, this is an edition with text, introduction and commentary for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well professional scholars. Helps students understand and appreciate the Pro Milone as both a literary masterpiece and a historical document.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J. (Washington University Keeline
• Assisted by: Thomas J. Keeline (Editor), Thomas J. (Washington University Keeline (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781107179738
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17973-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval