Cicero in Letters : Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic

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 subject."--Elaine Fantham, Princeton University" "Cicero in Letters is 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 beyound. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule." xii, 235 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Latin letters; Letter writing, Latin; Rome (Empire); Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Statesmen--Correspondence; Letters; ISBN: 0195388518. ISBN/EAN: 9780195388510. Add. Inventory No: 231030HAAD01013. . 9780195388510