Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Books of Friendship, Old Age, & Scipio's Dream
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Cicero's Books of Friendship, Old Age, and Scipio's Dream
Author: The Dream of Scipio
Author: Iain PearsPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Cicero's Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Cicero's Three Books of Offices of Moral Duties
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Every Department of Literature and in Various Languages
Author: William StrongCicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's dream, and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate, tr. by C.R. Edmonds
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
T.P.'s Weekly
Author: Thomas Power O'ConnorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800
Author: Tania Sona SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 traces the development of British rhetorical culture through English translations of selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus, along with a glossary of English rhetorical vocabulary.