This comprehensive anthology of Cicero's works contains his Tuscalan Disputations, his treatises on the divine, and the 'De re Publica' - otherwise known as On the Commonwealth.
Originally conceived by Cicero as a method of popularising the Stoical form of philosophy to which he subscribed, the[...]

All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.John AdamsHe squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master[...]

Cicero's philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero's value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schoo[...]

Of all the philosophical and rhetorical treatises of Cicero, his three books "On the Orator" (de Oratore) represent perhaps the most polished and appealing. Here is Rome's consummate orator and composer of forensic and political speeches, at the height of his powers, giving the considered results of[...]

This useful school edition of all four of Cicero's speeches against Catiline consists of a concise but thorough and very useful Introduction giving background on Cicero, Roman history, the history of the Catilinarian conspiracies and a chronological table, the full Latin text interspersed with brief[...]