Letters to friends / edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.

Main entry:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.

Title & Author:

Letters to friends / edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2001]
© 2001

Description:

3 volumes ; 17 cm

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 205, 216, 230

Notes:
This edition is Shackleton Bailey's standard Latin text, now updated, with revised version of his earlier Penguin English translation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
V.1. [Letters 1-113] -- V.2. [Letters 114-280] -- V.3. [Letters 281-435].
Translated from the Latin.

Summary:

CICEREO 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 Italian 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, years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic. The 435 letters collected here represent Ciceros correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of twenty years, from 62 BC, when Ciceros political career was at its peak, to 43, the year he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony. They range widely in substance and style, from official dispatches and semi-public letters of political importance to casual notes that chat with close friends about travels and projects, domestic pleasures and books, and questions currently debated. This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Letters to Friends, in three volumes brings together D.R. Shackleton Baileys standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of his much admired translation first published by Penguin Books. This authoritative edition complements the new Loeb edition of Ciceros Letters to Atticus, also translated by Shackleton Bailey.

ISBN:

0674995880 (v. 1)
9780674995888 (v. 1)
0674995899 (v. 2)
9780674995895 (v. 2)
0674995902 (v. 3)
9780674995901 (v. 3)

Subject:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius Correspondence.
Cicéron. Correspondance.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Correspondence.
Statesmen Rome Correspondence.
Authors, Latin Correspondence.
Hommes d'État Rome Correspondance.
Écrivains latins Correspondance.
Statesmen
Authors, Latin
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence
Correspondance privée.

Added entries:

Shackleton Bailey, D. R. (David Roy), 1917-2005.
Loeb classical library ; 205, 216, 230.

Cicero--letters to friends

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 229234
Call No.: PA6308.E5 S45 2001
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 229235
Call No.: PA6308.E5 S45 2001
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main y 229236
Call No.: PA6308.E5 S45 2001
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available

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