The Letters to His Friends, III (Loeb Classical Library, No. 230)

Cicero; W. Glynn Williams (trans.)

ISBN 10: 0434992305 / ISBN 13: 9780434992300

Published by William Heinemann, London, 1979

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6th printing (1979). 392pp. VG/VG copy, ink name on ffep, price-clipped, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Letters to His Friends, III (Loeb Classical Library, No. 230)
• Publisher: William Heinemann, London
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434992305
• ISBN 13: 9780434992300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History

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Synopsis

Cicero's correspondence is unparalleled among classical texts; nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a momentous period in Roman history.

The 435 letters collected here represent Cicero's correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of 20 years, from 62 B.C., when Cicero's political career was at its epak, to 43 B.C., the year he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony. They range widely in substance and style, from official dispatches and semi-public letters of political importance to casual notes that chat with close friends about travels and projects, domestic pleasures and books, and questions currently debated.