The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521729807 ISBN 13: 9780521729802

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became seminal texts in political theory and in the reception and study of the Classics. This Companion discusses the whole range of Cicero's writings, with particular emphasis on their links with the literary culture of the late Republic, their significance to Cicero's public career and their reception in later periods.

About this title

Book Description:

A comprehensive introduction to Cicero's writings for students and non-specialists. Draws on recent transformative research on the political and literary culture of the late Roman Republic and presents important new research on Cicero's reception in late antiquity and from the Renaissance period onwards.

About the Author:

Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. She has written extensively on Roman oratory, Cicero and political life in the Republic, including Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (2002), Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome (2005) and Roman Oratory (2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521729807
• ISBN 13: 9780521729802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 441
• Editor: Steel Catherine