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Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero (Paperback)
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Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero (Paperback)
Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series
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Plutarch's Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the
present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong
underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are
an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while
superb technically as orators, were both in the end political
failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their
world. In these two Lives, Plutarch is not so much interested in
Demosthenes' and Cicero's rhetorical technique as in their ability
to persuade an audience to vote for the right course of action,
even if that action was prima facie unpopular. In Plutarch's own
time, when the empire of the Caesars had been established for over
a century, liberty was of necessity limited, but still an issue,
for both Greeks and Romans. His home, Chaeroneia, was a provincial
town in Greece, but he travelled regularly to Italy where he met
Romans from the elite that ruled the empire. He wrote both for his
fellow imperial subjects who still sought to enjoy what freedom
they could obtain from the ruling power, and for the Romans who
exercised that power but were always subject to the ultimate
authority of the emperor. Along with the translations and
commentaries, Lintott provides a detailed introduction which
discusses the background and context of these two Lives, essential
information about the author and the periods in which these two
orators lived, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's
presentation of the two personalities.
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