The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
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The Cambridge Companion to Cicero by Catherine Steel
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 study of the Classics. This Companion discusses the whole range of Cicero's writings, with particular emphasis on their links with the literary culture of the late Republic, their significance to Cicero's public career and their reception in later periods.
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Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. She has written extensively on Roman oratory, Cicero and political life in the Republic, including Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (2002), Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome (2005) and Roman Oratory (2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521729802 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521729807 |
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Cicero |
| Author | Catherine Steel |
| Series | Cambridge Companions To Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 441 |
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