Letters to Atticus
By: Cicero ; edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey.
Contributors: Atticus, Titus Pomponius.; Shackleton Bailey, D. R. 1917-
Series: Loeb classical library ;; 7-8, 97, 491
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Correspondence; Atticus, Titus Pomponius -- Correspondence; Latin letters -- Translations into English; Statesmen -- Rome -- Correspondence; Authors, Latin -- Correspondence
Description: In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106-43 BCE) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except, perhaps, his brother, and vividly depicts a momentous period in Roman history, marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.