Cicero: Selected Political Speeches : Selected Political Speeches

by Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author); Grant, Michael (Translator); Grant, Michael (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780140442144
• ISBN10: 0140442146
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocratic circles that controlled the Roman state, and became renowned for his speaking to the Assembly, Senate and courtrooms. Whether fighting corruption, quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archias or railing against Mark Antony in the Philippics - the magnificent arguments in defence of liberty which led to his banishment and death - Cicero s speeches are oratory masterpieces, vividly evocative of the cut and thrust of Roman political life.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(33)
On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius (In Support of the Manilian Law)	33	(38)
Against Lucius Sergius Catilina (I--IV)	71	(75)
In Defence of the poet Aulus Licinius Archias	146	(19)
In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus	165	(50)
In Defence of Titus Annius Milo	215	(64)
In Support of Marcus Claudius Marcellus	279	(16)
The First Philippic against Marcus Antonius	295	(36)
APPENDIXES
A Key to Technical Terms	321	(2)
B Further Reading	323	(2)
C Maps	325	(6)
Index of Personal Names	331