Cicero : Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome

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Cicero : Politics and Persuasion in Ancient RomeAs the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous accounts of the murder, corruption and violence that plagued Rome in the first century BC, his surviving letters give an exceptional glimpse into Ciceros own personality and his reactions to events as

but all have considerable literary and historical interest

the Republic

through the Battle of Pharsalus and death of Pompey

and medical historian

the defenceless infant Atalanta

Apparently he rejected superstition in favor of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws

Themis will join the Democratic Army

Notes accompanying each passage provide extensive help with vocabulary and translation

but also elegant and wistful

κοιτώντας τον τοίχο απέναντι

to the deadly lure of the Sirens and the wrath of the sea-god Poseidon

and Straton