Marcus Tullius Cicero - Böcker

Denna bok rymmer två antika dialoger. Den första är Ciceros Om ödet i vilken Cicero diskuterar ödet som begrepp och för fram tanken att också den fria viljan är en aspekt av ödet. I princip avfärdar Cicero ställningstagandet att världen är determi...

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"Min ståndpunkt är att vältaligheten måste vara grundad i en teoretisk skolning av gedignaste art [...] Vältalighet är grundad i summan av alla de färdigheter, av vilka framgång redan i en enda är något storslaget. Låt oss uppmuntra våra barn...

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Retorikern, advokaten och politikern Marcus Tullius Cicero, som blev mördad på order av triumviren Marcus Antonius år 43 före Kristus, är för eftervärlden mest känd för sina tal och brev. Talen har uppfattats som ett mönster av kraftfull framställ...

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"Min ståndpunkt är att vältaligheten måste vara grundad i en teoretisk skolning av gedignaste art [...] Vältalighet är grundad i summan av alla de färdigheter, av vilka framgång redan i en enda är något storslaget. Låt oss uppmuntra våra barn...

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"Min ståndpunkt är att vältaligheten måste vara grundad i en teoretisk skolning av gedignaste art [...] Vältalighet är grundad i summan av alla de färdigheter, av vilka framgång redan i en enda är något storslaget. Låt oss uppmuntra våra barn...

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Retorikern, advokaten och politikern Marcus Tullius Cicero, som blev mördad på order av triumviren Marcus Antonius år 43 före Kristus, är för eftervärlden mest känd för sina tal och brev. Talen har uppfattats som ett mönster av kraftfull framställ...

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Benjamin Patrick Newton's translation of Ciceros On Duties is the most complete edition of a text that has been considered a source of moral authority throughout classical, medieval, and modern times. Marcus Tullius Cicero was a preeminent Ro...

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Bedeutet Altern wirklich den Verlust körperlicher und geistiger Beweglichkeit? Der große Redner und Politiker Cicero sagt: Nein und führt aus, wie im Gegenteil die zweite Lebenshälfte zur besten Zeit überhaupt werden kann, und welche Vorteile alte...

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Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the s...

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All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and oft...

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A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true frie...

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A scholarly edition of a work by Cicero. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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The third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, repor...

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The third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, repor...

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This 2001 translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy available to modern readers. Cicero is increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major...

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Book 1 of De Natura Deorum exhibits in a nutshell Cicero's philosophical method, with the prior part stating the case for Epicurean theology, the latter (rather longer) part refuting it. Thus the reader observes Cicero at work in both constructive...

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This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age) with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the con...

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Cicero's De re publica contains the fullest ancient account of the theory of the mixed constitution and the oldest extant narrative of early Roman history; it concludes with the Dream of Scipio, one of the most influential ancient visions of the a...

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This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than s...

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In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a n...

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As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesman...

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Cicero's De Oratore is one of the masterpieces of Latin prose. A literary dialogue in the Greek tradition, it was written in 55 BCE in the midst of political turmoil at Rome, but reports a discussion 'concerning the (ideal) orator' that supposedly...

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In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a n...

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These 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, manuscr...

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These 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, manuscr...

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The fifth and sixth volumes of Dr Shackleton Bailey's edition of the Atticus letters contain a revised version of the text first published in the Oxford Classical Texts in 1961. Problems of dating in this part of the correspondence are severe, and...

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