Cicero, Post Reditum Speeches: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

by Gesine Manuwald

The high point in Cicero's life (according to his own assessment), his reaching the consulship at the earliest opportunity in 63 BCE and his successful confrontation of the Catilinarian Conspiracy during that year, was soon followed by a backlash, which made Cicero withdraw from Rome in 58 to 57 BCE. Upon return to Rome from this absence (traditionally called 'exile' by a term Cicero himself never uses in this context), Cicero delivered two speeches,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198850751
• ISBN13: 9780198850755
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"