{"product_id":"9780674995901-cicero","title":"Letters to Friends, Volume III","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLetters 281–435\u003cbr\u003eCicero’s letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe private correspondence of Rome’s most prolific public figure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCicero   (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31081500049505,"sku":"9780674995901","price":24.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41274264.jpg?v=1778824550","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674995901-cicero","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}