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Free Download O Tempora! O Mores!: Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations, A Student Edition with Historical Essays By Susan O. Shapiro, Cicero
2005 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0806136626 | PDF | 5 MB
In 63 b.c., Lucius Sergius Catilina, a Roman aristocrat, formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. Cicero, who was consul that year, exposed the Description and documented his defeat of the conspiracy in his Orations against Catiline. The First Catilinarian Oration is well known and deservedly famous. Scholars are familiar with the other three speeches, but few students know them. This lapse is regrettable. The Third Oration is a fast-paced courtroom drama, and the Second and Fourth Orations provide critical information about this key event in Roman history. Susan O. Shapiro here makes all Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations accessible to the intermediate Latin student. O Tempora! O Mores! is designed to fit a variety of pedagogical approaches. Professors can assign any of the Catilinarian Orations independently or assign excerpts from several of the speeches. Shapiro’s historical essays bring a new dimension to Latin study, explaining the history and politics behind the texts. The essays are divided into short sections that can be assigned individually for class discussion. The volume is further amplified by a vocabulary, maps, a bibliography, and appendices.

Free Download Cicero’s Topica (Oxford Classical Monographs) By Cicero
2004 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0199263469 | PDF | 3 MB
Cicero’s Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition of the work that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission.

Free Download Cicero on Divination: Book 1 Book 1 (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (Bk. 1) By David Wardle (editor)
2007 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 0199297916 | PDF | 2 MB
In the two Books of De divinatione Cicero considers beliefs concerning fate and the possibility of prediction: in the first book he puts the (principally Stoic) case for them in the mouth of his brother Quintus; in the second, speaking in his own person, he argues against them. In this new translation of, and commentary on, Book One–the first in English for over 80 years–David Wardle guides the reader through the course of Cicero’s argument, giving particular attention to the traditional Roman and the philosophical conception of divination.

Free Download Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius By Robert A. Kaster (editor)
2006 | 493 Pages | ISBN: 0199283028 | PDF | 3 MB
This volume contains a new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero’s defense of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero’s political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches against Catiline and the Second Philippic. Its account of recent history provides any student of Rome with a fascinating way into the period; its depiction of public meetings, demonstrations, and violence are highly pertinent to the current debate on the place of "the crowd in Rome in the late Republic"; the speech is also among the best introductions we have to traditional Republican values and ethics in action.

Free Download American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll by Bradley J. Birzer
English | June 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 193385989X | 230 pages | True EPUB | 3.48 MB
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton-the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence-was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll’s signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but the fascinating new biography American Cicero rescues Carroll from unjust neglect.

Free Download Ioannis Deligiannis, "Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero: Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Gre"
English | ISBN: 311121589X | 2023 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
The volume aims at complementing the international literature on the interaction between Cicero and Greece. It offers new and unpublished material on Cicero’s presence in Greece literally, deriving from his epistles, speeches and philosophical treatises, but also on his interaction with the Greek philosophical schools, the Greek language and politics, etc. Besides, it offers new knowledge on the appreciation and reception of Cicero and his texts by the Greek world from Late Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, based on material deriving from a variety of sources (papyri, manuscripts, compendia or encyclopaedias, imitations, translations, early editions, etc.), an aspect of the relationships between Cicero and Greece still understudied. Thus, the volume offers an image as illustrative as possible of various aspects of the presence of the Greek world in Cicero’s works and of Cicero’s presence in Greece from his own times to the present day.

Free Download R.W. Sharples, "Cicero: On Fate: & Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy IV.5-7 and V "
English | ISBN: 0856684767 | | 208 pages | PDF | 46 MB
Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day.

Free Download The Life of Cicero
by Philip Kay-Bujak;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399097415 | 377 pages | True PDF EPUB | 26.69 MB

Free Download Andrew Lintott, "Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero"
English | 2013 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0199699720, 0199699712 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Plutarch’s Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world.

Free Download Andrew Lintott, "Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero"
English | 2013 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0199699720, 0199699712 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Plutarch’s Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world.