Fragmentary Speeches Cicero Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

Incomplete But Invaluable Excerpts From Otherwise Lost Orations Cicero (Marcus Tullius 106–43 Bc) Roman Advocate Orator Politician Poet And Philosopher About Whom We Know More Than Do Of Any Other Lived Through The Stirring Era That Saw Rise Dictatorship Death Julius Caesar In A Tottering Republic Cicero’s Political Speeches His Correspondence See Excitement Tension Intrigue Politics Important Part He Played Turmoil Time Although Oratory Is Well Attested—Of 106 Known Fifty-Eight Survive Intact Or Large Part—The Sixteen Only Quotations Nevertheless Fill Gaps Our Knowledge These Attracted Interest Later Authors Particularly Asconius Quintilian For Their Exemplary Content Oratorical Strategies Use Language Failing To Entire Not Because They Were Inferior Quality Due Factors Contingent On Way Read Circulated Evaluated (Especially Late) Antiquity Fragmentary Fall Like Career General Into Three Periods: Preconsular Consular Postconsular Here Are Presented Chronologically Numbered Continuously Fragments Arranged Insofar As Possible Order Which Would Have Occurred Followed By Unplaced Each Speech Receives An Introduction Ample Notation This Edition Completes Loeb Classical Library Includes All With Attested Together Testimonia Based Upon Crawford’s 1994 Sources Been Examined Afresh Newer Source-Editions Substituted Where Appropriate Σελίδες: 512 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1014 Διαστάσεις: 10 8X10 8Cm