The True History of Cicero.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 17034 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 264 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251040165 |
Cicero was seventeen years old when the armed struggle between Marius and Sulla began. For more than half a century, civil war would bloody Rome, until Augustus inaugurated a new regime. In this terrible period of convulsions and divisions, one man would desperately attempt to save the Republic. A conservative republic, dominated by the privileged classes, but preferable in his eyes to the adventures of military dictatorship or the illusions of a despotism with populist overtones. Present on all fronts, striking down a conspiracy with deadly effects, but accepting heavy compromises in the name of the lesser evil, Cicero oscillated between intransigence and prevarication, between loyalty and about-faces. Until the final battle, which he faced with energy and panache. But this fighter had many other passions. An exceptional orator, a learned philosopher, and a talented poet according to Plutarch, he left behind a wealth of work, most of which has survived, allowing us to follow the course of his thoughts and emotions. With his appetite for culture, his ideal of tolerance, his cult of friendship, and his attention to others, Cicero was not only the last Republican in Rome. He was also its first humanist. Plutarch, Tacitus, Appian, Sallust, Cassius Dio, and Cicero tell us about it.
Cicero was seventeen years old when the armed struggle between Marius and Sulla began. For more than half a century, civil war would bloody Rome, until Augustus inaugurated a new regime. In this terrible period of convulsions and divisions, one man would desperately attempt to save the Republic. A conservative republic, dominated by the privileged classes, but preferable in his eyes to the adventures of military dictatorship or the illusions of a despotism with populist overtones. Present on all fronts, striking down a conspiracy with deadly effects, but accepting heavy compromises in the name of the lesser evil, Cicero oscillated between intransigence and prevarication, between loyalty and about-faces. Until the final battle, which he faced with energy and panache. But this fighter had many other passions. An exceptional orator, a learned philosopher, and a talented poet according to Plutarch, he left behind a wealth of work, most of which has survived, allowing us to follow the course of his thoughts and emotions. With his appetite for culture, his ideal of tolerance, his cult of friendship, and his attention to others, Cicero was not only the last Republican in Rome. He was also its first humanist. Plutarch, Tacitus, Appian, Sallust, Cassius Dio, and Cicero tell us about it.