{"product_id":"9780674991743","title":"Pro Archia. Post Reditum in Senatu. Post Reditum ad Quirites. De Domo Sua. De Haruspicum Responsis. Pro Plancio by Cicero","description":"Defense of a poet, and five speeches from after exile.   Cicero  (Marcus Tullius, 106-43   BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and  philosopher, of whom we know   more than of any other Roman, lived  through the stirring era that saw   the rise, dictatorship, and death of  Julius Caesar in a tottering   republic. In his political speeches  especially and in his  correspondence  we see the excitement, tension and  intrigue of politics  and the part he  played in the turmoil of the  time. Of about 106  speeches, delivered  before the Roman people or the  Senate if they were  political, before  jurors if judicial, fifty-eight  survive (a few of  them incompletely). In  the fourteenth century  Petrarch and other  Italian humanists discovered  manuscripts containing  more than 900  letters of which more than 800 were  written by Cicero and  nearly 100  by others to him. These afford a  revelation of the man all  the more  striking because most were not  written for publication. Six  rhetorical  works survive and another in  fragments. Philosophical works  include  seven extant major compositions  and a number of others; and  some lost.  There is also poetry, some  original, some as translations  from the  Greek.    The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294372442485,"sku":"9780674991743","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674991743.jpg?v=1762763252","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674991743","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}