Pro Milone /

Pro Milone /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.
Uniform title:	Pro Milone. Latin (Keeline)
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Description:	xix, 381 pages : 3 maps ; 21 cm.
Language:	Latin English
Series:	Cambridge Greek and Latin classics Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.
Subject:	Milo, Titus Annius, -- -48 B.C. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. -- Pro Milone. Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation. Pro Milone (Cicero, Marcus Tullius) Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin. Commentaries. Speeches. Informational works.
Format:	Map Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12688431

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Other authors / contributors:	Keeline, Thomas J., editor.
ISBN:	9781107179738 1107179734 9781316631447 1316631443 9781316841013 9781316846162
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English and Latin.
Summary:	"In my perhaps biased opinion, the Pro Milone is Cicero's best speech. And now that I've finished writing a commentary on it, well, I feel just about ready to start writing one. But life is short, and I've already spent more time thinking about this speech than Cicero himself ever did. So: manum de tabula! My goal in this book is to help students and scholars understand the Pro Milone both as a literary masterpiece and as a historical document. Much of the commentary is an attempt to build a bridge between what we know today and what Cicero's contemporary audience would have known. Now this is ultimately an unbridgeable gap - Cicero's contemporaries were native speakers of Latin who knew the people involved in the trial and had an intuitive grasp of the social and political background to the case, to say nothing of their shared cultural knowledge of Roman life and the Roman world more generally ca. 52 bc. Today we can only do our best to reconstruct that knowledge by diligent philology, careful historical work, and constant attention to Cicero's rhetorical artistry. Our reconstruction will necessarily remain fragmentary and incomplete. But I don't think we should despair: even if the gap between us and them is unbridgeable, we can still make a lot of progress, and the journey itself has much to offer"--
Other form:	Online version: Cicero: pro milone 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781316841013
Standard no.:	16965461

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Summary:	The Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving every major political figure of the day. Although Cicero's defense failed, the published speech remains one of his finest, a fascinating document from a turbulent time, full of interest both historical and rhetorical. This edition, aimed at students and scholars alike, provides readers with the help that they need to appreciate the speech as a literary masterpiece and a historical text. Including a comprehensive introduction and a newly constituted Latin text, it provides detailed treatment of Cicero's language, style, and rhetorical techniques, as well as full discussion of the historical background and the larger social and cultural issues relevant to the speech.
Physical Description:	xix, 381 pages : 3 maps ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781107179738 1107179734 9781316631447 1316631443 9781316841013 9781316846162