Cicero Letters to Atticus: Books I-VI (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Latin Edition) - Hardcover

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674990080 ISBN 13: 9780674990081

Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr, 1983

Synopsis

English translation by E.O. Winstedt, Oxford. Books I-VI. Volume XXII of the Loeb Classical Library works of Cicero.

About this title

Book Description:

Two volumes form the first part of Dr Shackleton Bailey's long-awaited edition of the Atticus letters. The introduction (printed in volume I only) deals successively with the historical background and Cicero's relations with Atticus, manuscripts. The text, with selective apparatus, is printed with Dr Shackleton Bailey's translation on facing pages.

Review:

'A work of massive learning, which, however, never deluges the reader. The translation is accurate, brilliant, lucid. The clarity and economy of the commentary are amazing. Dr Shackleton Bailey merits our deepest admiration upon the completion of this monumental work.' Classical Bulletin

'In my opinion these letters reveal more clearly what Rome was like than anything in our literary tradition except the Aeneid. And here at last is an English version worthy of the great original.' Classical Philosophy

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0674990080
• ISBN 13: 9780674990081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 505