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Orations. Other Fragments (Hardcover)
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Orations. Other Fragments (Hardcover)
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Ancient Rome’s original archconservative. M. Porcius Cato
(234–149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman
Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career,
especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of
life; his integrity of character and austere morality; his literary
works, composed in a style at once sophisticated and down-to-earth;
his pithy sayings; and his drive to define and to champion Roman
national character and traditions in the face of challenges from
Greek culture. Cato’s legend derived to no small degree from his
own distinctive and compelling self-presentation, which established
a model later developed and elaborated by Cicero and by subsequent
literary and historical authors for centuries to come. This volume
and its companion (LCL 551) join the Loeb edition of Cato’s only
extant work, On Agriculture (LCL 283), by supplying all testimonia
about, and all fragments by or attributed to Cato. Highlights are
Origines, the first historical work attested in Latin, a history of
Rome from its founding to the onset of the first Punic War, as well
as the origins of major Italian cities; his orations, regarded as
the beginning of Roman oratory; To His Son Marcus, which
inaugurated a Roman tradition of didactic pieces addressed by
fathers to their sons; Military Matters; the Poem on Morals;
letters; commentaries on civil law; and memorable sayings.
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