{"product_id":"tusculan-disputations-1","title":"Tusculan Disputations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophical dialogues of a grieving statesman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43  BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know  more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw  the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering  republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence  we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he  played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered  before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before  jurors if judicial, fifty-eight survive (a few of them incompletely). In  the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered  manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were  written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a  revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not  written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in  fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions  and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some  original, some as translations from the Greek.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54255850783064,"sku":"9780674991569","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674991569.jpg?v=1780396230","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tusculan-disputations-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}