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Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled; nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a momentous period in Roman history.
The 435 letters collected here represent Cicero's correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of 20 years, from 62 BCE, when Cicero's po
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 25 May 2001
ISBN-10 : 0674995902 | ISBN-13: 9780674995901
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Release date: 25 May 2001
ISBN-10 : 0674995902 | ISBN-13: 9780674995901
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