Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 3, Books 5-7.9 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 3, Books 5-7.9 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The third volume of Dr Shackleton Bailey's edition of the Atticus letters contains a revised version of the text first published in the Oxford Classical Texts in 1961. Like its predecessors, this volume contains a text and selective apparatus, a translation facing each page of text, a full commentary, and indexes.

'Shackleton Bailey's translation is, one need hardly say, extremely accurateIt serves as a most valuable aid to the understanding of the text and as a complement to the commentary in many passages of particular difficulty … Shackleton Bailey's commentary may claim a place in the great tradition of commentaries on the Latin prose writers … It solves many problems, casts light on others which remain unsolved and removes a vast accumulation of traditional rubbish … The lucidity and economy of this commentary are admirable.' F. R. D. Goodyear, Gnomon
' … an edition of major importance … the manuscript problems are surpassing difficulty and their solution is of great importance. Not less than his achievement one admires the courage of the scholar who undertook the task.' Lily Ross Taylor, Classical Philosophy

Cicero, Marcus Tullius: - Marcus Tullius Cicero )3 January 106 BC - 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer and Academic Skeptic philosopher who played an important role in the politics of the late Republic and vainly tried to uphold republican principles during the crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.[4] His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.[5][6] He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in the year 63 BC. His influence on the Latin language was immense: it has been said that subsequent prose was either a reaction against or a return to his style, not only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th century.[7][8] Cicero introduced into Latin the arguments of the chief schools of Hellenistic philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary with neologisms such as evidentia, [9] humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia, [10] distinguishing himself as a translator and philosopher. Though he was an accomplished orator and successful lawyer, Cicero believed his political career was his most important achievement. It was during his consulship that the second Catilinarian conspiracy attempted to overthrow the government through an attack on the city by outside forces, and Cicero suppressed the revolt by summarily and controversially executing five conspirators. During the chaotic latter half of the 1st century BC marked by civil wars and the dictatorship of Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional republican government. Following Julius Caesar's death, Cicero became an enemy of Mark Antony in the ensuing power struggle, attacking him in a series of speeches. He was proscribed as an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and consequently executed by soldiers operating on their behalf in 43 BC after having been intercepted during an attempted flight from the Italian peninsula. His severed hands and head were then, as a final revenge of Mark Antony, displayed on the Rostra. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance in public affairs, humanism, and classical Roman culture.[11] According to Polish historian Tadeusz Zieliński, the Renaissance was above all things a revival of Cicero, and only after him and through him of the rest of Classical antiquity.[12] The peak of Cicero's authority and prestige came during the 18th-century Enlightenment, [13] and his impact on leading Enlightenment thinkers and political theorists such as John Locke, David Hume, Montesquieu and Edmund Burke was substantial.[14] His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history, especially the last days of the Roman Republic.

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ISBN 13	9780521606912
ISBN 10	0521606918
Title	Cicero: Letters to Atticus: Volume 3, Books 5-7.9
Author	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Series	Cambridge Classical Texts And Commentaries
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2004-06-10
Number of pages	340
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