Philippics 16 by Cicero

Philippics 16 by Cicero

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.

If I could make one Christmas wish, it would be that every MP receives these two volumes in their stocking next week, and is obliged to recite a passage of Cicero—in DR. Shackleton Bailey’s crystalline translation—on Boxing Day morning, to understand how great speeches are made… The great advantage of the Loeb editions is that readers who are interested in the language of Rome but whose Latin is weak (a category in which I am emphatically included) can compare the original side by side with the translation. Thus one can get a sense of how Cicero’s words sounded, before glancing across and seeing them in English… This translation is throughout a joy to read. -- Robert Harris * Sunday Times *

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University. John T. Ramsey is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London and Series Editor of Fragmentary Republican Latin.

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Titel	Philippics 16
Autor	Cicero
Serie	Loeb Classical Library
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-01-01
Seitenanzahl	400
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