On Living and Dying Well - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcus Tullius Cicero, Thomas Habinek (Translator), Thomas Habinek (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-11-27Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140455564ISBN-10:140455566UPC:9780140455564Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, EssaysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCVRP55WDR
On Living and Dying Well
Philosophical writings on "the good life" by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse and trenchant topics as friendship, religion, death, fate, and scientific inquiry. This lucid and lively new translation renders the great...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140455564ISBN-10:140455566UPC:9780140455564Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, EssaysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCVRP55WDR
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman orator and statesman, was born at rural Arpinum (in the south of modern Italy) to a wealthy local family. He was taken to Rome for his education with the idea of a public career and, by the year 70 BC, he had established himself as the leading barrister in Rome. In the meantime, his political career was well under way and he was elected praetor in 66 BC....
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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