Selected Political Speeches (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Selected Political Speeches This text presents a selection of the political speeches of Cicero, including: "On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius", "Against Lucius Sergius Catilina", "In Defence of the Poet Aulus Licinius Archias", and "In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus".
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 08 December 1977
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Public Speaking Guides | Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework | Literary Essays | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500
- ISBN 13: 9780140442144 ISBN 10: 0140442146
- Sales rank: 122,951
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Full description for Selected Political Speeches
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.
