Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters
Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters

Author: Jon C. R. Hall

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2009-05-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0195329066

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This is a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and his correspondents, during the final decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theories of politeness, it explores the distinctive conventions of epistolary courtesy that shaped formal interaction among men of the Roman elite.

Cicero: Select Letters
Cicero: Select Letters

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-07-03

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521295246

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A collection of representative letters from Cicero's vast correspondence, with introduction and commentary.

Cicero's Letters to His Friends
Cicero's Letters to His Friends

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555402648

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This is a one-volume reprinted edition with corrections and a new foreword of D. R. Shackleton Bailey's acclaimed translation of Cicero's letters, previously appearing in two volumes. It includes an introduction, appendices on Roman history, glossaries, maps, and a concordance.

Letters of Cicero
Letters of Cicero

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher:

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781490540825

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Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. According to Polish historian Tadeusz Zielinski, "Renaissance was above all things a revival of Cicero, and only after him and through him of the rest of Classical antiquity." The peak of Cicero's authority and prestige came during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and his impact on leading Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and Montesquieu was substantial. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history, especially the last days of the Roman Republic.