{"product_id":"9780674992184","title":"Pro Lege Manilia. Pro Caecina. Pro Cluentio. Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo by H.Grose Hodge","description":"The ascending statesman.   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":56294397182325,"sku":"9780674992184","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674992184.jpg?v=1762763332","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674992184","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}