On Life and Death - Paperback
by Cicero
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cicero, John Davie, Miriam T. GriffinSeries:Oxford World's ClassicsPublish date:2017-04-01Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199644148ISBN-10:199644144UPC:9780199644148Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient, Classical & MedievalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SC0AM6YCHE
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199644148ISBN-10:199644144UPC:9780199644148Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient, Classical & MedievalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SC0AM6YCHE
John Davie is Lecturer in Classics at Trinity Collge, Oxford and former Head of Classics at St Paul's School, London. He has previously translated the complete plays of Euripides for Penguin Classics and has also translated for the Oxford World's Classics Seneca's Dialogues and Essays and Horace's Satires and Epistles. Miriam T. Griffin was born in New York and studied at Barnard College and Radcliffe before receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to Oxford, where she completed her DPhil under the supervision of Sir Ronald Syme. She was initially the Fulford Research Fellow at St. Anne's College, later being appointed to a tutorial fellowship in Ancient History at Somerville College and a CUF Lectureship in the University, as well as holding a post as Langford Eminent scholar at Florida State University in 2008. She was the editor of The Classical Quarterly from 2002 until 2007 and was a long-standing editor of the Clarendon Ancient History Series for Oxford University Press. In 2018, Dr Griffin was posthumously awarded a British Academy Medal for her lifetime's contribution to Roman history and ancient thought.
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