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On life and death
- Title
- On life and death / Cicero ; translated by John Davie ; edited with an introduction and notes by Miriam T. Griffin.
- Author
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xxviii, 251 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. Cicero, though a senior statesman, struggled to maintain his independence and it was during these years that, frustrated in public life, he first started to put his excess energy, stylistic brilliance, and superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy. The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero's works, written to his friends Atticus and Brutus, with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome. They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business, the experience of grief, and the difficulties of old age. -- Amazon.com
- Series Statement
- Oxford world's classics
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subject
- Philosophy, Ancient
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Latin.
- Contents
- Tusculan disputations -- On old age -- On friendship.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3028
- ISBN
- 0199644144
- 9780199644148
- LCCN
- 2016951441
- OCLC
- 956747566
- Author
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.
- Title
- On life and death / Cicero ; translated by John Davie ; edited with an introduction and notes by Miriam T. Griffin.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford world's classicsOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv).
- Language
- Translated from the Latin.
- Added Author
- Davie, John, 1950-Griffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara)Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae disputationes. Selections. English.Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato maior de senectute. English.Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de amicitia. English.Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares. Selections. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3028