Tag: Cicero

Cicero’s Topica (Oxford Classical Monographs)


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2004 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0199263469 | PDF | 3 MB
Cicero’s Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition of the work that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission.

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Cicero on Divination Book 1 Book 1 (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (Bk. 1)


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2007 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 0199297916 | PDF | 2 MB
In the two Books of De divinatione Cicero considers beliefs concerning fate and the possibility of prediction: in the first book he puts the (principally Stoic) case for them in the mouth of his brother Quintus; in the second, speaking in his own person, he argues against them. In this new translation of, and commentary on, Book One–the first in English for over 80 years–David Wardle guides the reader through the course of Cicero’s argument, giving particular attention to the traditional Roman and the philosophical conception of divination.

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Cicero Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius


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2006 | 493 Pages | ISBN: 0199283028 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero’s defense of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero’s political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic. Its account of recent history provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period; its depiction of public meetings, demonstrations, and violence are highly pertinent to the current debate on the place of "the crowd in Rome in the late Republic"; the speech is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action.

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American Cicero The Life of Charles Carroll


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English | June 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 193385989X | 230 pages | True EPUB | 3.48 MB
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton-the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence-was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll’s signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but the fascinating new biography American Cicero rescues Carroll from unjust neglect.

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Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Gre


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English | ISBN: 311121589X | 2023 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
The volume aims at complementing the international literature on the interaction between Cicero and Greece. It offers new and unpublished material on Cicero’s presence in Greece literally, deriving from his epistles, speeches and philosophical treatises, but also on his interaction with the Greek philosophical schools, the Greek language and politics, etc. Besides, it offers new knowledge on the appreciation and reception of Cicero and his texts by the Greek world from Late Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, based on material deriving from a variety of sources (papyri, manuscripts, compendia or encyclopaedias, imitations, translations, early editions, etc.), an aspect of the relationships between Cicero and Greece still understudied. Thus, the volume offers an image as illustrative as possible of various aspects of the presence of the Greek world in Cicero’s works and of Cicero’s presence in Greece from his own times to the present day.

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Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero


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English | 2013 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0199699720, 0199699712 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Plutarch’s Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world.

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Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero


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English | 2013 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0199699720, 0199699712 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Plutarch’s Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world.

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