{"product_id":"9780674996359","title":"Philippics 7-14 by Cicero","description":"Invectives against Antony.   Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43  BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about  whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the  stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar  in a tottering republic. In Cicero's political speeches 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, 58 survive (a few incompletely), 29 of which are addressed to  the Roman people or Senate, the rest to jurors. 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. This correspondence affords a  revelation of the man, all the more striking because most of the letters  were not intended for publication. Six works on rhetorical subjects  survive intact and another in fragments. Seven major philosophical works  are extant in part or in whole, and there are a number of shorter  compositions either preserved or known by title or fragments.    The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293195284853,"sku":"9780674996359","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674996359.jpg?v=1762755247","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674996359","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}