Cicero: Letters to Atticus (Volume 3) (The Loeb Classical Library 97)

Bailey, DRS (ed/trans)

ISBN 10: 0674995732 / ISBN 13: 9780674995734

Published by Harvard University Press, 1999

About this Item

Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9780674995734.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cicero: Letters to Atticus (Volume 3) (The Loeb Classical Library 97)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674995732
• ISBN 13: 9780674995734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 300 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classics

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Synopsis

The private correspondence of Rome’s most prolific public figure.

To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero’s Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations and convictions and his reactions to what is happening in Rome. These letters also provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history, years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.

When the correspondence begins in November 68 BC, the 38-year-old Cicero is a notable figure in Rome: a brilliant lawyer and orator, he has achieved primacy at the Roman bar and a political career that would culminate in the consulship in 63. Over the next twenty-four years―until November 44, a year before he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony―Cicero wrote frequently to his friend and confidant, sharing news and views and discussing affairs of business and state. It is to this corpus of over 400 letters that we owe most of our information about Cicero’s literary activity. Here too is a revealing picture of the staunch republican’s changing attitude toward Caesar. And taken as a whole the letters provide a first-hand account of social and political life in Rome.

D. R. Shackleton Bailey’s authoritative edition and translation of the Letters to Atticus is a revised version of his Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries edition, with full explanatory notes.

About the Author

D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.