Cicero: Philippics I-II

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

2021-01-09 21:59:32

This edition is the first since J.D. Denniston''s of 1926 to present the Latin text and commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of Cicero''s most polished orations, composed less than six months after the murder of Julius Caesar in March 4... Read more
This edition is the first since J.D. Denniston''s of 1926 to present the Latin text and commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of Cicero''s most polished orations, composed less than six months after the murder of Julius Caesar in March 44 BC. This period--roughly 63-44 BC--is important because the Roman state was in transition from Republic to Empire. The Second Philippic not only presents Cicero''s assessment of his own political career and his place in Roman history from a perspective late in his life, but it also provides a vivid eyewitness account of how Julius Caesar, with the help of Mark Antony, made himself master of Rome. Less

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File size7.91 X 5 X 0.98 in
Print pages380
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date September 4, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521422857
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is consi...

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