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Cicero: Murder at Larinum: Selections from the Pro Cluentio
Contributor(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author), Cicero (Author), Grose-Hodge, Humfrey (Editor)
ISBN: 0862920930     ISBN-13: 9780862920937
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $29.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1991
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Annotation: This is a complete critical edition of Cicero's Cato Maior de Senectute (On Old Age )with an introduction and commentary. The text is based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition while the introduction aims to place the work in the context of Cicero's writings on old age in the ancient world. The Roman and Ciceronian qualities of the work are emphasized, rather than the search for lost sources that occupied scholars in the past. Matters of text, language, and content are all considered equally in the commentary.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Social Science | Gerontology
Dewey: 305.26
Lexile Measure: 1340
Series: Bcp Latin Texts
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.35 lbs) 111 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Italy
 
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Publisher Description:

This
volume contains the explanatory sections of Cicero's speech Pro Cluentio - the defence in a
particularly lurid murder case set in the northern Italian provincial town of
Larinum. It forms an admirable introduction to the reading of Golden Latin
prose. As narrative exposition it is in the clear, lucid style of Cicero's
early career. The Introduction elucidates the background situation, the feud
between the Cluentil and the villainous Oppicianus; the Notes give ample
linguistic and historical assistance and there is also a full Vocabulary.
This is unadapted and exciting Latin well within the grasp of those who are
tackling a 'real' text for the first time.