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Religiöses in der politischen Argumentation der späten römischen Republik : Ciceros Erste Catilinarische Rede, eine Fallstudie
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ISBN: 9783515103022 3515103023 Year: 2013 Volume: 42 Publisher: Stuttgart : F. Steiner,


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Cicero refused to die : Ciceronian influence through the centuries
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ISBN: 9789004243446 9004243445 900424476X 9789004244764 Year: 2013 Volume: 4 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Cicero has indeed refused to die, despite the fact that he, in the year 43 BC, was savagely put to death, a preposterous event that brought an end to the long and illustrious career of a lawyer, politician, statesman, praetor, consul, and above all, intellectual, philosopher, writer. His works on 'The Ideal Orator', 'On Law', 'On Academic Life', 'On Supreme Good and Evilv, 'The Nature of Gods', 'Foretelling the Future', 'Destiny', and 'Duties' constituted the basis of a thorough study of Latin for many centuries of students. One might also, however, conclude that, with the virtual disappearance of Latin as a language that is commonly taught, Cicero might be seen to have suffered a second death; but this is by no means the case. This timely volume explores the many aspects of Ciceronian influence through the Middle Ages - and beyond - on education, literature, and legal training.


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How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
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ISBN: 1299149081 140084620X 0691156573 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight about how to solve these and other problems of leadership and politics. How to Run a Country collects the best of these writings to provide an entertaining, common sense guide for modern leaders and citizens. This brief book, a sequel to How to Win an Election, gathers Cicero's most perceptive thoughts on topics such as leadership, corruption, the balance of power, taxes, war, immigration, and the importance of compromise. These writings have influenced great leaders--including America's Founding Fathers--for two thousand years, and they are just as instructive today as when they were first written. Organized by topic and featuring lively new translations, the book also includes an introduction, headnotes, a glossary, suggestions for further reading, and an appendix containing the original Latin texts. The result is an enlightening introduction to some of the most enduring political wisdom of all time.


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Cicero on politics and the limits of reason : the republic and laws
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ISBN: 9781107043589 1107043581 9781107338722 1107517168 9781107517165 1107502993 1139893645 1107501385 1107506751 1107497442 1107504074 1107338727 9781461950905 1461950902 9781107497443 1108816401 9781107502994 9781139893640 9781107501386 9781107506756 9781107504073 Year: 2013 Volume: *107 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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"A prolific philosopher who also held Rome's highest political office, Cicero was uniquely qualified to write on political philosophy. In this book Professor Atkins provides a fresh interpretation of Cicero's central political dialogues - the Republic and Laws. Devoting careful attention to form as well as philosophy, Atkins argues that these dialogues together probe the limits of reason in political affairs and explore the resources available to the statesman given these limitations. He shows how Cicero appropriated and transformed Plato's thought to forge original and important works of political philosophy. The book demonstrates that Cicero's Republic and Laws are critical for understanding the history of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law. It concludes by comparing Cicero's thought to the modern conservative tradition and argues that Cicero provides a perspective on utopia frequently absent from current philosophical treatments"--


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Demosthenes and Cicero
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ISBN: 9780199699728 9780199699711 0199699712 0199699720 0191745162 Year: 2013 Volume: *6 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the background and context of the lives of Demosthenes and Cicero, essential information about the author and the periods in which these two orators lived, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities, as well as the English translation of both works.


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Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome
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ISBN: 9781107032507 1107032504 9781139506373 1139506374 9781107689848 1107689848 1139892428 1107702844 1107701759 1107667003 1107703751 1107598265 1108730035 1107596572 9781139892421 9781107702844 9781107701755 9781107667006 9781107703759 9781107598263 9781306376204 1306376203 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that were collectively closing the divide between humans and gods. A guiding principle is that a major cultural player like Cicero had a normative function in religious dialogues that could legitimize incipient ideas like deification. Applying contemporary metaphor theory, it analyzes the strategies and priorities configuring Cicero's divinizing encomia of Roman dynasts like Pompey, Caesar and Octavian. It also examines Cicero's explorations of apotheosis and immortality in the De re publica and Tusculan Disputations as well as his attempts to deify his daughter Tullia. In this book, Professor Cole transforms our understanding not only of the backgrounds to ruler worship but also of changing conceptions of death and the afterlife.


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Community and communication : oratory and politics in republican Rome
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ISBN: 9780199641895 0199641897 0191746134 1283848392 0191636568 9780191636561 9781283848398 9780191746130 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This title brings together contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. With careful attention to a range of evidence, it shines a light on orators and considers the oratory of diplomatic exchanges and impromptu heckling and repartee alongside the familiar genres of forensic and political speech.

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