Reading Cicero : Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome

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Reading Cicero : Genre and Performance in Late Republican RomeM. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late Republic. The relationship between these two facets of his career is the subject of this book, which argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life in

At Rome he became a learned and militant Christian

arranged in an acrostic following the Greek alphabet

and Trajan's replies are the only surviving file of letters between a provincial governor and his emperor

to illuminate the underlying cognitive processes

Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525/524 to 465/455

Athena’s pacification of the Furies

The Greek text and English translation are on facing pages

and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society

and essays on a wide variety of subjects

"Μόνο μη μου ζητήσετε να λύσω το πρόβλημα της ατεκνίας"

292 BC) was regarded by the Romans as the founder of Latin literature

a remarkably accurate and impartial record of his own times