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Author: R. E. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0521065011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a critical description of Cicero's political life and influence during the last years of the Roman Republic.
Author: Robert Hariman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0226316289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Robert Hariman demonstrates how matters of style—of diction, manners, sensibility, decor, and charisma—influence politics. In critical studies of classic texts, Hariman identifies four dominant political styles. The realist style, as found in Machiavelli's The Prince, creates a world of sheer power, constant calculation, and emotional control; this style is the common sense of modern political science. The courtly style, depicted in Kapuscinski's The Emperor, is characterized by high decorousness, hierarchies, and fixation on the body of the sovereign; this style infuses mass media coverage of the American presidency. The republican style, reflected in Cicero's letters to Atticus, promotes the art of oratory, consensus, and civility; it informs our ideal of democratic conversation. The bureaucratic style, as captured in Kafka's The Castle, emphasizes institutional procedures, official character, and the priority of writing; this style structures everday life. Hariman looks at effective political artistry in figures from antiquity to modern politicians such as Vaclav Havel, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He discusses the crises to which each style is susceptible, as well as the social and moral consequences of each style's success.
Author: Robert T. Radford
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-08
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9004458646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents Cicero's natural law theory, including valuable definitions of the state, the ideal state, the ideal ruler, and the laws for the ideal state. Explanations are offered of the Greek sources of Cicero's republican philosophy, his influence on the Principate of Augustus, and his role in the development of modern political philosophy. As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero, his authority should have great weight (John Adams, 1787).
Author: Raphael Woolf
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1317532198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCicero’s philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero’s value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schools is unquestioned, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic explores his writings as works of philosophy that do more than simply synthesize the thought of others, but instead offer a unique viewpoint of their own. In this volume Raphael Woolf describes and evaluates Cicero’s philosophical achievements, paying particular attention to his relation to those philosophers he draws upon in his works, his Romanizing of Greek philosophy, and his own sceptical and dialectical outlook. The volume aims, using the best tools of philosophical, philological and historical analysis, to do Cicero justice as a distinctive philosophical voice. Situating Cicero’s work in its historical and political context, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the thought of one of the finest orators and writers of the Roman period. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic is a key resource for those interested in Cicero’s role in shaping Classical philosophy.
Author: Cicero
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-02-23
Total Pages: 870
ISBN-13: 0141912537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic's most enlightened thinker.
Author: Alexander Yakobson
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783515074810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy on the teachings of Om̐kāra Bābā, Hindu and sufi saint, from Koraput District in Orissa.
Author: Richard D. Weigel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1134901631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarcus Aemilius Lepidus was a significant force in Roman political, religious and military affairs during the late Republic. However, in most accounts he is dismissed quickly, made sport of, or bitterly attacked. Through a careful examination of Lepidus's career, Richard Weigel has shown why many of the sources are hostile and how these have created an inaccurate assessment of Lepidus's role in history. Weigel shows that Lepidus was a competent administrator and that he was consistent in serving the Republic's needs as he understood them.
Author: Cicero
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-11-25
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0141920327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocratic circles that controlled the Roman state, and became renowned for his speaking to the Assembly, Senate and courtrooms. Whether fighting corruption, quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archias or railing against Mark Antony in the Philippics - the magnificent arguments in defence of liberty which led to his banishment and death - Cicero's speeches are oratory masterpieces, vividly evocative of the cut and thrust of Roman political life.
Author: H.H. Scullard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1000527204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard’s death. It explores the decline and fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. In superbly clear style, Scullard brings vividly to life the Gracchi’s attempts at reform, the rise and fall of Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Caesar, society and culture in the late Roman Republic, the Augustan Principate, Tiberius and Gaius, Claudius and Nero, and economic and social life in the early Empire.
Author: Howard Hayes Scullard
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780415025270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis narrative covers the period from 133 BC to 69 AD, exploring the decline and fall of the Republic, and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate.
