{"product_id":"9780674992788","title":"Pro Milone. In Pisonem. Pro Scauro. Pro Fonteio. Pro Rabirio Postumo. Pro Marcello. Pro Ligario. Pro Rege Deiotaro by N.H. Watts","description":"Speeches from turbulent times.   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":56292824285557,"sku":"9780674992788","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674992788.jpg?v=1762752244","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674992788","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}