Selected Political Speeches | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780140442144 | Selected Political Speeches | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archais or railing against Mark Anthony in the Philippics - The magnificent speeches in defense of liberty that cost him his life - cicero vividly evokes for us the cut and thrust of the Roman assembly, Senate and court rooms. This excellent modern translation also enables readers to understand why Cicero was for centuries a major influence on prose writers and political thinkers of ever kind.

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Über den Autor

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman orator and statesman, was born at Arpinum of a wealthy local family. He was taken to Rome for his education with the idea of a public career and by the year 70 he had established himself as the leading barrister in Rome. In the meantime his political career was well under way and he was elected praetor for the year 66. One of the most permanent features of his political life was his attachment to Pompeii. As a politician, his greatest failing was his consistent refusal to compromise; as a statesman his ideals were more honorable and unselfish than those of his contemporaries. Cicero was the greatest of the roman orators, posessing a wide range of technique and an excpetional command of the Latin tongue. He followed the common practice of publishing his speeches, but he also produced a large number of works on the theory and practice of rhetoric, on religion, and on moral and political philosophy. He played a leading part in the development of the Latin hexameter. Perhaps the most interesting of all his works is the collection fo 900 remarkably informative letters, published posthumously. These not only contain a first-hand account of social and political life in the upper classes at Rome, but also reflect the changing personal feelings of an emotional and sensitive man.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius (In Support of the Manilian Law)
2 Against Lucius Sergius Catilina (i-iv)
3 In Defence of the poet Aulus Licinius Archias
4 In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus
5 In Defence of Titus Annius Milo
6 In Support of Marcus Claudius Marcellus
7 The First Philippic against Marcus Antonius

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1977
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140442144
ISBN-10:	0140442146
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Übersetzung:	Grant, Michael
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 128 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.12.1977
Gewicht:	0,218 kg

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