Description
| Product ID: | 9780199644148 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Title: | On Life and Death |
| Authors: | Author: Cicero, John Davie, Miriam T. Griffin |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, European history, Ancient history, Social and political philosophy, European history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Social & political philosophy, BCE to c 500 CE |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. These three dialogues here are among the most accessible of Cicero's philosophical works. ''any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure''Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome''s greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. Cicero, though a senior statesman, struggled to maintain his independence and it was during these years that, frustrated in public life, he first started to put his excess energy, stylistic brilliance, and superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy. The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero''s works, written to his friends Atticus and Brutus, with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome. They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business, the experience of grief, and the difficulties of old age. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-02-23 |
