Cicero

ISBN: 9781780764016 出版年：2014 页码：234 Gesine Manuwald Bloomsbury Publishing

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thinking, it is perhaps for his political and oratorical careis best remembered. He was the nemisis of Catiline, whose plot to overthrow the Republic he famously denounced to the Senate. He was the selfless politician who turned down the opportunity Caesar and Pompey in their ruling triumvirate with Crassus. He was briefly Rome's leading man after Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE.And he was the great political orator whose bitter coflict wiled to his own violent death in authoritative survey, Gesine Manuwald evokes the many faces of Cicero complexities and seeming contradictions. She focuses on his major works, allowing the great writer to speak for himself. Cicerois seen to endure in the works of Quintilian and the Church Fathers as well as in the speeches of Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama.