Research Catalog

Title

On the Orator: Book 3. on Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory. 4 [electronic resource]

Author

Cicero

Publication

Cambridge : Harvard University Press Jan. 1942

Details

Additional Authors

Rackham, H.

Series Statement

Loeb Classical Library 349

Uniform Title

On the Orator: Book 3. on Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory. 4 (Online)

Alternative Title

On the Orator: Book 3. on Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory. 4 (Online)

With (note)

• Bound With:De Fato;Paradoxa Stoicorum;De Partitione Oratoria

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Audience (note)

• Trade

LCCN

9780674993846

OCLC

ssj0002876890

Author

Cicero author

Title

On the Orator: Book 3. on Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory. 4 [electronic resource]

Imprint

Cambridge : Harvard University Press Jan. 1942

Description

1 online resource (448 p.) : ill.

Series

Loeb Classical Library 349

With:

Bound With:De Fato;Paradoxa Stoicorum;De Partitione Oratoria

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Summary

Annotation Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which 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, 58 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.

Audience

Trade Harvard University Press

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Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Rackham, H. translator.

Other Standard Identifier

9780674993846