O Tempora! O Mores!: Cicero's Catilinarian Orations A Student Edition with Historical Essays

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Book Overview

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 plot 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806136626
• ISBN13: 9780806136622
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"