num_pages: 232
description: The pro Caelio is a speech that has great appeal for both the neophyte and the advanced student alike. Perhaps more than any other speech in the corpus, the pro Caelio stands out as a tour de force of Ciceronian persuasion, but in addition it affords us a privileged view into the social circles haunted by Clodia Metelli, generally assumed to be the notorious Lesbia celebrated in the poetry of Catullus.... Because of its illumination of the Roman society in which Catullus lived and wrote, his friends and their politics and love affairs, it is best read side by side with the poetry of Catullus and when a student first encounters Catullus. Since the committee for the Advanced Placement program in Latin has perceived this and included the pro Caelio in the curriculum, a new edition of the speech designed especially for AP students has been badly needed. It is to meet this need that the present edition was undertaken, tested extensively in secondary school and college classes, and now offered to a wider public.
language: Latin
title: Pro Caelio
titlecomplete: Pro Caelio
genres: Classical Studies, School, Classics, Literature, Nonfiction, Language, History
ratings_count: 322
publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub