Cicero 
On Life and Death [PDF ebook] 

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‘any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them… now that I am at leisure’Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. Cicero, though a senior statesman, struggled to maintain his independence and it was during these years that, frustrated in public life, he first started to put his excess energy, stylistic brilliance, and superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy. The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero’s works, written to his friends Atticus and Brutus, with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome. They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business, the experience of grief, and the difficulties of old age.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9780191662270 ● Editor Miriam T. Griffin ● Translator John Davie ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5200721 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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