The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

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.

Author: Catherine Steel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/28/2013
Pages: 444
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780521509930

About the Author
Steel, Catherine: - 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).