Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of
Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its
replacement by the tyranny of Pompey, Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian.
One of Rome's most memorable and keenly observant writers, his letters
to friends and family are an astonishingly detailed record of daily life
and politics in Rome. Here is the largest one-volume selection of
Cicero's letters currently available, documenting Cicero's tumultuous
career and providing a month-by-month record of the final collapse of
the Roman senatorial government. Covering the years 68-43 BC, the
letters illuminate events from the high point of Cicero's consulship of
63, through the humiliation of his exile and subsequent subjection to
the dynasts, to the assassination of Caesar in 44, and Cicero's brief
hour of glory in leading senatorial resistance to the tyranny of Mark
Antony. In P. G. Walsh's lively new translation, Cicero's correspondence
brings to
life once more all the intrigue, excitement, and danger of ancient Rome.
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