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Rhetorica ad Herennium (Hardcover)
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Rhetorica ad Herennium (Hardcover)
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator,
politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other
Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise,
dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we
see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part
he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches,
delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were
political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them
incompletely). In the fourteenth century, Petrarch and other
Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900
letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly
100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the
more striking because most were not written for publication. Six
rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical
works include seven extant major compositions and a number of
others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as
translations from the Greek. The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was
traditionally attributed to Cicero and reflects, as does Cicero's
De Inventione, Hellenistic rhetorical teaching. But most recent
editors attribute it to an unknown author. The Loeb Classical
Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.
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