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The Life of Cicero, Vol. I

The Life of Cicero, Vol. I

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Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 10 hours and 57 minutes

Language: English

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his strength as a politician and as a man. He takes a personal approach, affording us an insight into his own mind and times as well as those of his subject.

Volume I covers the period (up to the year 57BC) of Cicero’s education, his rise through the courts and offices of state to the Consulship, and his exile.

Please note that footnotes - predominantly bibliographical citations and Latin quotations - are omitted unless explicitly referred to in the main text; the appendices, which consist mainly of more substantial extracts from other works, are likewise omitted. (Summary by Philippa)

Volume II can be found here.

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Ch1, Introduction, pt1 (Philippa)
Ch1, Introduction, pt2 (Philippa)
Ch2, His Education (Philippa)
Ch3, The Condition of Rome (Philippa)
Ch4, His Early Pleadings, pt1 (Philippa)
Ch4, His Early Pleadings, pt2 (Philippa)
Ch5, Cicero as Quaestor (Philippa)
Ch6, Verres, pt1 (Philippa)
Ch6, Verres, pt2 (Philippa)
Ch7, Cicero as Aedile and Praetor (Philippa)
Ch8, Cicero as Consul (Philippa)
Ch9, Catiline, pt1 (Philippa)
Ch9, Catiline, pt2 (Philippa)
Ch10, Cicero After His Consulship (Philippa)
Ch11, The Triumvirate, pt1 (Philippa)
Ch11, The Triumvirate, pt2 (Philippa)
Ch12, His Exile, pt1 (Philippa)
Ch12, His Exile, pt2 (Philippa)
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