Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome Tapa blanda - 2005

Duckbacks, 2005. Paperback. New. 176 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics.

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

Bristol Classical Press, 2005-03-10. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. 2005. 0715632795 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 144 pages; 5 1/3 x 8 1/2 inches - M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late Republic. The relationship between these two facets of his career is the subject of this book, which argues that our understanding both of Cicero’s oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life in the Late Republic is transformed if Cicero’s writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics. Writing offered Cicero a huge range of opportunities to impress himself upon an audience much wider than could be reached through the… Leer más