Tusculan Disputations

Tusculan Disputations

ISBN-10:
0674991567
ISBN-13:
9780674991569
Pub. Date:
01/01/1927
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674991567
ISBN-13:
9780674991569
Pub. Date:
01/01/1927
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Tusculan Disputations

Tusculan Disputations

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Overview

Philosophical dialogues of a grieving statesman.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674991569
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1927
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #141
Edition description: 8th printing/1st pub.1927-rev.1945/index
Pages: 624
Sales rank: 553,720
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.30(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

John Edward King (1858–1939) was Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford; High Master of Manchester Grammar School; and Headmaster of Bedford School and Clifton School.
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