Cicero V: Brutus, Orator (Loeb Classical Library)

Hendrickson, G. L. and H. M. Hubbell

ISBN 10: 0674993772 / ISBN 13: 9780674993778

Published by William Heinemann, Ltd. / Harvard University Press, London, 1971

About this Item

Red cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, red dust jacket, 538 pp. Text is in English and Latin. The texts of two controversial treaties by Cicero. Includes translation, introduction, and summary for each. VG- (Former owner name and year on first page; dj is twice corner clipped; binding may have slight soiling or edge wear; pages are aging lightly.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cicero V: Brutus, Orator (Loeb Classical Library)
• Publisher: William Heinemann, Ltd. / Harvard University Press, London
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674993772
• ISBN 13: 9780674993778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Revised and Reprinted.
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Synopsis

The statesman on the history and practice of Roman oratory.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

About the Authors

George Lincoln Hendrickson (1865–1963) was Lampson Professor of Latin and Greek Literature at Yale University.

Harry Mortimer Hubbell (1881–1971) was the Talcott Professor of Greek at Yale University.