Rhetorica ad Herennium by Cicero

Rhetorica ad Herennium by Cicero

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Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.

Harry Caplan (1896–1980) was Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Cornell University.

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ISBN 13	9780674994447
ISBN 10	0674994442
Title	Rhetorica ad Herennium
Author	Cicero
Series	Loeb Classical Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year published	1954-01-01
Number of pages	496
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