Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith. This selection demonstrates the diversity of his writings, and includes letters to friends and statesmen on Roman life and politics; the vitriolic Second Philippic Against Antony; and his two most famous philosophical treatises, On Duties and On Old Age - a celebration of his own declining years. Written at a time of brutal political and social change, Cicero's lucid ethical writings formed the foundation of the Western liberal tradition in political and moral thought that continues to this day. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... interest , as the selected works in the present volume reveal . MICHAEL GRANT has been successively Chancellor's Medallist and Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University , first Vice ...
... interest , as the selected works in the present volume reveal . MICHAEL GRANT has been successively Chancellor's Medallist and Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University , first Vice ...
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... interests of the Republic , between the knights and the Senate , of which he became a member . He started his career on the left – interested not indeed in Revolution ( he calls the proletariat ' leeches that suck dry the Treasury ...
... interests of the Republic , between the knights and the Senate , of which he became a member . He started his career on the left – interested not indeed in Revolution ( he calls the proletariat ' leeches that suck dry the Treasury ...
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... interests in the status quo . But in Cicero's case the change was due not only or even principally to this general ... interest - encouraged him to this course of action : namely the necessity ( because it is natural ) of cooperation ...
... interests in the status quo . But in Cicero's case the change was due not only or even principally to this general ... interest - encouraged him to this course of action : namely the necessity ( because it is natural ) of cooperation ...
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... interest in theology as he possesses , then , is related and even subordinated to his prime concern , which is human cooperation : his specific contribution is the idea of humanity . Since , however , this idea is based on the divine ...
... interest in theology as he possesses , then , is related and even subordinated to his prime concern , which is human cooperation : his specific contribution is the idea of humanity . Since , however , this idea is based on the divine ...
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... interest upon his discussions of such subjects . Both we and Cicero live in times of ludicrous or tragic disparity between the standards which the great religions demand from their adherents and the infinitely smaller degree of goodness ...
... interest upon his discussions of such subjects . Both we and Cicero live in times of ludicrous or tragic disparity between the standards which the great religions demand from their adherents and the infinitely smaller degree of goodness ...
Contents
VIII | 35 |
IX | 58 |
X | 101 |
XII | 155 |
XIII | 157 |
XIV | 211 |
XV | 249 |
XVI | 251 |
XVIII | 258 |
XIX | 261 |
XX | 262 |
XXI | 263 |
XXII | 264 |
XXIV | 265 |
XXV | 266 |
XVII | 253 |
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