The hand of Cicero
By: Shane Butler.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Death and burial.; Antonius, Marcus, 83?-30 B.C.; Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism.; Transmission of texts -- Rome.; Written communication -- Rome.; Latin language -- Written Latin.; Orators -- Rome -- Biography.; Authors, Latin -- Biography.; Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C.
Genres: Biography.
Description: ix, 165 pages ; 25 cm
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments viii; title: Abbreviations ix; title: Introduction: the hand (or hands) of Cicero 1; title: 1 The young Cicero, reading 4; title: 2 Cicero takes a bath: an introduction to the prosecution of Verres 24; title: 3 Multitudo litterarum: a catalogue of the written evidence against Verres 35; title: 4 The trial of Verres 61; title: 5 Litterae manent: the publication of the Verrines 71; title: 6 December 3, 63 BCE: convincing Rome of a conspiracy 85; title: 7 The hand of a secretary: writing after the Ides of March 103; title: Notes 124; title: Selected bibliography 152; title: Index locorum 158; title: Index 161.