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Orationes

Orationes

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Product Code:
389-01
ISBN
978-954-321-424-2
SKU
31.0059
Year
28-11-2016
Pages
128
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.15 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Antiquity, Historical Figures, Ancient Philosophy

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. His influence on the Latin language was so immense that the subsequent history of prose, not only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th cent…

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The Catiline or Catilinarian Orations is a set of speeches to the Roman Senate given by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls, accusing a Senator, Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline), of leading a plot to overthrow the Roman government. Some modern historians, and ancient sources such as Sallust, suggest that Catiline was a more complex and sympathetic character than Cicero's writings declare and that Cicero, a career politician, was heavily influenced by a desire to establish decisively a lasting reputation as a great Roman patriot and statesman. Most accounts of the events come from Cicero himself. This is one of the best, if not the very best, documented events surviving from the ancient world, and has set the stage for classic political struggles pitting state security against civil liberties.

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