Defence Speeches

Defence Speeches
Author: Cicero,
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-08-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199537909

This book presents five of Cicero's courtroom defences, including the defence of Roscius, falsely accused of murdering his father; of the consul-elect Murena, accused of electoral bribery; and of Milo, for murdering Cicero's enemy Clodius.

Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome

Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome
Author: David Braund
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780859896627

In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman's past and present work. They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this generation. The contributions range over myth (Corialanus and Remus), the interplay between historiography, literature and myth-making (on Cleopatra, for instance), and art and story-telling at Boscoreale. They explore Roman drama (Pacuvius) and links between drama and Virgil's Aeneid; they discuss Catullus in Bithynia and Cicero on Greek and Roman culture. Professor Wiseman has been at the forefront of innovative research in Roman history, historiography, literature in context, drama and myth, for many years. His work is marked by the combination of a powerful historical imagination with an acute sense of the limitations of our knowledge and of the need to negotiate with the complexity of our sources.

Pro Archia

Pro Archia
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1964
Genre: Latin language
ISBN: