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Cicero, Post Reditum Speeches: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Cicero, Post Reditum Speeches: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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The high point in Cicero's life (according to his own assessment),
his reaching the consulship at the earliest opportunity in 63 BCE
and his successful confrontation of the Catilinarian Conspiracy
during that year, was soon followed by a backlash, which made
Cicero withdraw from Rome in 58 to 57 BCE. Upon return to Rome from
this absence (traditionally called 'exile' by a term Cicero himself
never uses in this context), Cicero delivered two speeches, in the
Senate and before the People respectively, to express his gratitude
for his recall and to establish himself again as a respected senior
statesmen. This volume offers the first-full scale commentary in
English, including a revised Latin text and a fresh English
translation, on these speeches, which have suffered from neglect in
scholarship and doubts about their authenticity. This book outlines
their particular nature, the characteristics of their specific
oratorical genre and their importance as documents of Cicero's
techniques as an orator and of the strategies of presenting
himself. In addition, the book includes the spurious speech, Pridie
quam in exilium iret, that Cicero supposedly gave on the eve of his
departure. Thus, offering the first proper study of this speech,
this volume presents all oratorical material related to Cicero's
departure from and return to Rome in a single volume and enables
direct comparison between speeches now confirmed to be genuine and
a later spurious speech, which also gives insights into the
reception history of Cicero's works. This book will therefore be an
essential tool especially for Classicists and Ancient Historians
interested in Cicero, in exile literature and in the history of the
Roman Republic and Roman oratory.
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