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Brutus. Orator by Cicero (1939, Hardcover)
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- ISBN
- 9780674993778
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674993772
ISBN-13
9780674993778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166736
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brutus. Orator
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / Rome, Rhetoric, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
1939
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, History
Book Series
Loeb Classical Library
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Item Length
6.7 in
Item Width
4.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Series Volume Number
342
Volume Number
5
Dewey Decimal
870
Table Of Content
Bibliographical Addendum List Of Cicero's Works Brutus Introduction Summary of Contents Text and Translation Orator Introduction Bibliography Text and Translation Index To Brutus Index To Orator
Synopsis
Brutus gives an account of the Roman tradition of public and lawcourt speeches from its beginning to what Cicero described as the polished and entertaining speeches of his own day. Along the way Cicero has interesting things to say about the influence of the speaker's audience on his style and technique. Also notable here is an autobiographical sketch. Cicero's own very wide practical experience informs Orator , which depicts the ideal speaker. Here he details the principles of eloquent oratory and quotes instructive examples. Both works date from 46 BCE and are dedicated to the author's promising young friend, Brutus, later famous in the conspiracy against Caesar., The statesman on the history and practice of Roman oratory. 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., We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
LC Classification Number
PA6296
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