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Cicero / Gesine Manuwald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manuwald, Gesine, author.
- Series:
- Understanding classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Political oratory--Rome.
- Political oratory.
- Statesmen--Rome.
- Statesmen.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I B Tauris, 2015.
- Summary:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major school of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual, vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thinking, it is perhaps for his political and oratorical career that Cicero is best remembered. He was the nemesis of Catiline, whose plot to overthrow the Republic he famously denounced to the Senate. He was the selfless politician who turned down the opportunity to join Julius Caesar and Pompey in their ruling triumvirate with Crassus. He was briefly Rome's leading man after Caesar's assassination in 44 BCF. And he was the great political orator whose bitter conflict with Mark Antony led to his own violent death in 43 BCE. In her authoritative survey, Gesine Manuwald evokes the many faces of Cicero as well as his complexities and seeming contradictions. She focuses on his major works, allowing the great writer to speak for himself. Cicero's rich legacy is seen to endure in the works of Quintilian and the Church Fathers as well as in the speeches of Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I Culmination of a Life in Politics and Writing 5
- II Political and Literary Career 21
- III Politician and Political Philosopher 53
- IV Orator and Rhetorician 67
- V Philosophical Writer 85
- VI Literary Persona 103
- VII Personality 121
- VIII Legacy and Reception 135.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1780764014
- 9781780764016
- 9781780764023
- 1780764022
- OCLC:
- 900305894
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