[PDF] Pro Milone eBook

Author : Cicero,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0199537909

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This book presents five of Cicero's courtroom defences, including the defence of Roscius, falsely accused of murdering his father; of the consul-elect Murena, accused of electoral bribery; and of Milo, for murdering Cicero's enemy Clodius.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199240968

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Pro Rabirio Postumo is a speech delivered by Cicero in defence of the Roman financier, Gaius Rabirius Postumus, who became embroiled in the 'Egyptian Question' which preoccupied Roman politics throughout the 50s BC. This volume includes the first full-scale commentary in English, as well as a new translation and extensive introduction. It records and examines the particular circumstances surrounding Rabirius Postumus' trial, and it furnishes an intriguing insight into the political forces at work in Rome and Egypt during the late Republican period.

Author : Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108426239

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Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Author : Basil Dufallo
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814210449

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The ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead: masks of the dead were in the atria of their houses, funerals paraded through their main marketplace, and tombs lined the roads leading into and out of the city. In Roman literature as well, the dead occupy a prominent place, indicating a close and complex relationship between literature and society. The evocation of the dead in the Latin authors of the first century BCE both responds and contributes to changing socio-political conditions during the transition from the Republic to the Empire. To understand the literary life of the Roman dead, The Ghosts of the Past develops a new perspective on Latin literature's interaction with Roman culture. Drawing on the insights of sociology, anthropology, and performance theory, Basil Dufallo argues that authors of the late Republic and early Principate engage strategically with Roman behaviors centered on the dead and their world in order to address urgent political and social concerns. Republican literature exploits this context for the ends of political competition among the clan-based Roman elite, while early imperial literature seeks to restage the republican practices for a reformed Augustan society. Calling into question boundaries of genre and literary form, Dufallo's study will revise current understandings of Latin literature as a cultural and performance practice. Works as diverse as Cicero's speeches, Propertian elegy, Horace's epodes and satires, and Vergil's Aeneid appear in a new light as performed texts interacting with other kinds of cultural performance from which they might otherwise seem isolated.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521604215

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In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and appendices, is the first full-scale scholarly treatment of the speech. The text takes account of Gulielmius' reports of the missing portion of the Erfurtensis manuscript, recovered by Dr Berry and published as a preliminary to this edition in 1989; a complete collation is provided of this and the other principal manuscripts. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case, and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.

Author : Sampson Low
Publisher :
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1898
Category : English imprints
ISBN :

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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.