Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Davie, John, 1950-
• Griffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara)

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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Tusculan disputations -- On old age -- On friendship -- Appendix : two letters to friends.

ISBN

• 0199644144
• 9780199644148

OCLC

• 956747566
• SCSB-12179224

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library