Letters to Friends, Volume I: Letters 1-113 by Cicero (English) Hardcover Book

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Cicero's letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.

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Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled; 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 BCE, when Cicero's political career was at its peak, to 43 BCE, the year he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs. 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. This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Letters to Friends, in three volumes, brings together D. R. Shackleton Bailey's standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of his much admired translation first published by Penguin. This authoritative edition complements the new Loeb edition of Cicero's Letters to Atticus, also translated by Shackleton Bailey.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Introduction Bibliographical Note The Friends Letters 1-113

Review

The collections of Cicero's correspondence are of undeniable importance in illuminating the Roman world, and Shackleton Bailey's editions of them well deserve their definitive status. -- Rex Stem * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Details ISBN0674995880 Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674995880 ISBN-13 9780674995888 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2001 Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Translated from Latin Short Title LETTERS TO FRIENDS VOLUME I Translator Bailey D.R. Shackleton DOI 10.1604/9780674995888 Edited by Bailey, D. Shackleton Imprint Harvard University Press Illustrations none UK Release Date 2001-07-30 NZ Release Date 2001-07-30 US Release Date 2001-07-30 Author D.R. Shackleton Bailey Pages 512 Publication Date 2001-07-30 DEWEY 937.05092 Series Number 5 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2001-07-29 Series Loeb Classical Library Subtitle Letters 1–113 We've got this

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