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De Inventione
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 4.99A brilliant philosophical work of Cicero, which constrains the readers to contemplate the world around them. It is remarkable for its rhetorical style and sublime language. A superb classic! more...
Defence Speeches
Oxford University Press, UK 2001; US$ 8.99This volume presents five of Cicero's most famous defence speeches: of Roscius, accused of murder; of Murena, accused of bribery; of Archias, on a citizenship charge; of Caelius, accused of violence; and of Milo, accused of murdering Cicero's hated enemy Clodius. These new translations achieve new standards of accuracy and introductions and... more...
Murder Trials
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableCicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman life, law, and history. more...
In Defence of the Republic
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableCicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This new selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic, giving... more...
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves ? and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives ? and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals... more...
Selected Letters
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableThe greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his correspondence with both close friends and powerful aristocrats. A chronicle of a crumbling civilization during the era when the republic disintegrated and was replaced... more...
On Old Age
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99Its an essay on old age and death. Its rational and philosophical subject matter is embellished by beautiful language. This book is a luminous substantiation of Ciceros meticulous emblematic style. It is still popular as Ciceros powerful commentary over a very momentous issue of growing age with explanatory notes is astounding. Timeless! more...
On Friendship
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99Cicero introduces the Roman concept of friendship through a dialogue between Laelius and his two sons-in-law, one of them being Ciceros teacher who later recounted the dialogue to him. Laelius, bereaved by the recent death of his close friend Scipio, describes various aspects of friendship. Cicero has captured the emotions and actualities brilliantly.... more...
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators
Old LandMark Publishing 2005; US$ 3.99It contains a few short, but very masterly sketches of all the Speakers who had flourished either in Greece or Rome, with any reputation of Eloquence, down to his own time; and as he generally touches the principal incidents of their lives, it will be considered, by an attentive reader,as a concealed epitome of the Roman history. more...
The Academica of Cicero
Old LandMark Publishing 2005; US$ 3.99There is no important doctrine of Ancient Philosophy which is not touched upon somewhere in the Academica. Cicero's first systematic lessons in philosophy were given him by the Epicurean Phaedrus, then at Rome because of the unsettled state of Athens, whose lectures he attended at a very early age, even before he had assumed the toga virilis. more...









