The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

Book Overview

Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became seminal texts in political theory and in the reception and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521729807
• ISBN13: 9780521729802
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"