Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic Tapa dura - 2010

Oxford University Press, 2010-07-19. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0000 9.3000 6.2000.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable.Publisher's note: ""From the practical details of writing the letter and seeing that it was delivered to the delicate balances that had to be struck in giving a proud peer advice, Peter White's book makes the indispensable resource that is Cicero's correspondence immensely accessible and human. Characteristically exact, acute, and elegant, White's own prose provides pleasure and instruction in equal measure."--Robert A. Kaster, Princeton University" ""Here is a book that wonderfully demonstrates the increased understanding of Cicero's correspondence generated by the work of Shackleton Bailey Peter White's study illuminates both our political and literary perceptions of the letters. Compelling to read and ostensibly simple, White's study is as shrewd and subtle as the letters which are its… Leer más

Oxford University Press, USA, 2010-07-19. Hardcover. Good.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ...a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond." Octavo: xii, [2], 235 p. Original light brown cloth binding, with dark brown titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.