Reading Cicero /

Steel, C. E. W.,

Reading Cicero / Reading Cicero : genre and performance in late republican Rome C.E.W. Steel. - 176 pages ; 22 cm. - Duckworth classical essays .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late Republic. The relationship between these two facets of his career is the subject of this book, which argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation.


Literary form.


Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.



--Reading book

875.01 / STE