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Worlds Classics
09 March 2017
'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure'Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome.

His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. Cicero, though a senior statesman, struggled to maintain his independence and it was during these years that, frustrated in public life, he first started to put his excess energy, stylistic brilliance, and superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy. The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero's works, written to his friends Atticus and Brutus, with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome. They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business, the experience of grief, and the difficulties of old age.

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Imprint:   Worlds Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 195mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   202g
ISBN:   9780199644148
ISBN 10:   0199644144
Series:   Oxford World's Classics
Pages:   288
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Davie is Lecturer in Classics at Trinity Collge, Oxford and former Head of Classics at St Paul's School, London. He has previously translated the complete plays of Euripides for Penguin Classics and has also translated for the Oxford World's Classics Seneca's Dialogues and Essays and Horace's atires and Epistles Miriam T. Griffin is Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She served as Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History for thirty-five years until 2002, and in her last twelve years she was also responsible for the Ancient History teaching at Trinity College. After retirement, she edited for five years The Classical Quarterly

Reviews for On Life and Death

Very accessible... provides much thought-provoking material... will appeal both to those who are already well-versed in philosophy and to those who come new to this discipline. * Marion Gibbs, Classics for All *


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