Born in 106 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero was the member of a well connected and well to do family. His cognomen, a personal surname, is derived from the Latin word for chickpea. It is suggested that this name may have been chosen as a result of his family's prosperity arising from the cultivation of chickpeas. His name suggests that despite being one the wealthiest men of his time he viewed himself he carried himself with humility. Educated in Latin and Greek, Cicero would rise to the highest ranks of Roman society, playing an ...
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Born in 106 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero was the member of a well connected and well to do family. His cognomen, a personal surname, is derived from the Latin word for chickpea. It is suggested that this name may have been chosen as a result of his family's prosperity arising from the cultivation of chickpeas. His name suggests that despite being one the wealthiest men of his time he viewed himself he carried himself with humility. Educated in Latin and Greek, Cicero would rise to the highest ranks of Roman society, playing an important role as a Roman statesman in the final decades of the Roman Republic. Today he is remembered chiefly for his writings which give us great insight into both his time and his philosophy. Contained within this volume are some of his most important writings on oration, religion, and philosophy. Following the translations of C. D. Yonge, Walter Miller, and E. S. Shuckburgh, "Selected Works" will provide the student of ancient Rome a key insight into the life and time of one of its most important figures. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
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Baltimore. 1960. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Translated from the Latin by Michael Grant. 272 pages. paperback. L99. keywords: Literature Ancient Rome Latin Translated History Classical Studies. FROM THE PUBLISHER-INCLUDES-Against Verres-1, Twenty-Three Letters, The Second Philippic Against Antony, On Duties-III, On Old Age. From the INTRODUCTION-‘CICERO AGAINST TYRANNY'-AMID the recurrent crises of the twentieth century there is a curious topicality in the spectacle of this highly intelligent but far from super-, human personality, first struggling to eminence in a great state, and then having to face, as well as he could, a crushing series of almost world-wide emergencies and convulsions. Very few other men have both stood at the centre of world events and written so well and fully about the part they played; the character that emerges is a complicated one, composed of brilliant but discordant and sometimes contradictory qualities. His story, which will be told-largely by, himself in this book, essentially consists of his repeated efforts, in spite of frequent and formidable discouragements, to oppose the autocratic modes of rule which were gradually, throughout his life, encroaching on the Republican system: and which reached their climax in the wholly authoritarian dictatorships of Sulla (82-79 B.C. ) and Caesar (49-44 B.c. ), and the scarcely less formidable committee regimes, both cynical and the second efficiently ruthless, of the two sets of Triumvirs (6o-so and 43-31 B.C.). Cicero was not often a very successful politician, but he derives unmistakable greatness from his insistence, against odds, that such dictatorial rulers were in the wrong because they unjustifiably curtailed the freedom of the individual: whereas the ultimate authority should be not themselves but certain unchangeable moral principles which they are incompetent to annul or amend. His own words on the subject, in his treatise On the State (III. 33), written during a period of profound political disappointment, represent an early and fundamental statement of one sides position in a perennial controversy. inventory #23036.
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