Great Ideas Attack on an Enemy of Freedom

By Marcus Tullius Cicero

Book Overview

The revised Latin text better reflects Ciceronian syntax and word order, differing from earlier texts in several hundred instances. The new translation, which faces the Latin text, is the first since... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014102383X
• ISBN13: 9780141023830
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It cost him his life

I felt I had to buy the book since Cicero finally took a stand for the principles expressed in his philosophical works and Marcus Antonius killed him in one of the purges.

Cicero - a prosey old bore?

Cicero's Phillipcs are packed with arrogance and lengthy praising of himself; this feature is extremely entertaining especially in Phillipic II. The argument against Antony is also of great historical interest in this book. The Loeb edition is extremely useful for students of Latin but also for the general reader. Its 'two-sided' approach (Latin/English Translation) is legendary and works extremely effectively. This edition also contains wonderfully helpful notes and appendices for true historical context.