Cicero: Philippics II (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
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~Cicero's great polemic against Antony, a literary masterpiece, is here made available to Latin students early in their reading programme and to students of classical civilisation. The introduction to this edition deals with the historical setting, Roman rhetoric and Cicero's style while the notes are mainly literary; not historical. Review: Free and easy with the prose - How this transalation appears to you really depends upon the purposes for which you are reading it. Lacey is quite free and easy with the prose, something which personally I find an advantage as it makes Cicero very 'readable' as it were. For the scholar studying Latin, rather than history, another edition would probably be a better idea. To the Phillipic itself, it is a must-read for anybody studying the late Roman republic. Cicero's vile attack upon Antony is world famous and has been passed down through history. Seperating fact from fiction, with all the exaggerations in between, is quite a task, but despite the fact that a good half of what Cicero claims simply was not true, it is an invaluable source for this period in history.
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Free and easy with the prose
How this transalation appears to you really depends upon the purposes for which you are reading it. Lacey is quite free and easy with the prose, something which personally I find an advantage as it makes Cicero very 'readable' as it were. For the scholar studying Latin, rather than history, another edition would probably be a better idea. To the Phillipic itself, it is a must-read for anybody studying the late Roman republic. Cicero's vile attack upon Antony is world famous and has been passed down through history. Seperating fact from fiction, with all the exaggerations in between, is quite a task, but despite the fact that a good half of what Cicero claims simply was not true, it is an invaluable source for this period in history.
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