Selected Letters (Oxford World s Classics)

Description

Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by the tyranny of Pompey, Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian. One of Rome s most memorable and keenly observant writers, his letters to friends and family are an astonishingly detailed record of daily life and politics in Rome. Here is the largest one-volume selection of Cicero s letters currently available, documenting Cicero s tumultuous career and providing a month-by-month record of the final collapse of the Roman senatorial government. Covering the years 68-43 BC, the letters illuminate events from the high point of Cicero s consulship of 63, through the humiliation of his exile and subsequent subjection to the dynasts, to the assassination of Caesar in 44, and Cicero s brief hour of glory in leading senatorial resistance to the tyranny of Mark Antony. In P. G. Walsh s lively new translation, Cicero s correspondence brings to life once more all the intrigue, excitement, and danger of ancient Rome.

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