Cicero: Pro P. Sulla Oratio

ISBN-13: 9780521481748 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 364 str.

D. H. Berry; Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opis

This is a full-scale scholarly edition of Cicero's speech in defense of P. Cornelius Sulla, delivered in 62 BC. It contains an introduction, a newly established Latin text, a commentary and appendices. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.

Recenzje

"Berry's work is excellent. All research libraries and all classical scholars interested in Cicero will want to own it." Christopher P. Craig, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Previous editions and commentaries; Bibliographical lists and surveys; Bibliography and abbreviations; Introduction: I. The life of P. Cornelius Sulla; II. The trial; III. The speech; IV. The manuscripts; Text; Commentary; Appendices: 1. The relationship of P. Sulla to L. Sulla; 2. Codicum P and K lectiones apparatu critico exclusae; Index.