Selected Letters

Informationen zum Autor P. G. Walsh has translated six previous Latin editions for OWC: Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Petronius, Satyricon, Cicero, The Nature of the Gods and On Obligations, Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, and Pliny, Complete Letters. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, P G Walsh
• Assisted by: P. G. Walsh (Translation), P. G. (Emeritus of Humanity at the University of Glasgow) Walsh (Translation), P. G. (Emeritus Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow) Walsh (Translation), Walsh P. G. (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2008
• EAN: 9780199214204
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921420-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; European History, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory