Four of Cicero's most attractive and original philosophical dialogues are included in this volume. Newly constituted texts of De Re Publica (including the fragments) and De Legibus are presented, toge
Cicero's essay On Friendship (Laelius de amicitia) is of interest as much for the light it sheds on Roman society as for its embodiment of ancient philosophical views on the subjects of friendship. Th
Rhetoric is not studied much any more but there was a time, not too long ago, when every school boy studied Cicero as a model of argumentative skill. The present volume grew out of a 2001 conference a
