Cicero : Letters to Friends v. 3

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled; nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a momentous period in Roman history.

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Cicero

Summary

Cicero’s letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.

Product details

• Authors: Shackleton Bailey, Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, D. R. Shackleton Bailey
• Assisted by: D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Editor), D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Translation), D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2001
• EAN: 9780674995901
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99590-1
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb classical library; Cicero; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Antike, Europäische Geschichte, Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher, altes Rom, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals