On Duties / Edition 1

by Cicero, Walter Miller

Overview

The ethics of a 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:	9780674990333
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1913
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #30
Edition description:	12th printing/1st pub.1931/index
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	375,808
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.90(d)
Language:	Latin

About the Author

Samuel Walter Miller (1864–1949) taught classics and archaeology at Missouri, Stanford, and Tulane, and as a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens led the first American excavation in Greece.

Table of Contents

Editors' note; Introduction; Principal dates; Plan of the Hellenistic schools; Summary of the Doctrines of the Hellenistic schools; Bibliography; Notes on translation; Synopsis; On Duties; Biographical notes; Index of persons and places; Index of subjects.