Marcus Tullius Cicero · 106–43 BC
Cicero:
the public life of reason.
A single author library organized by Cicero’s philosophical, rhetorical, oratorical, and epistolary works.
Philosophy
Reason and the republic
De officiis
Duty, moral goodness, expediency, and their apparent conflicts.
3 books · complete →TVSCVLANAE DISPVTATIONESTusculan Disputations
Death, pain, grief, emotion, virtue, and the happy life.
5 books · complete →DE RE PVBLICAOn the Commonwealth
Constitution, justice, statesmanship, and Scipio’s Dream.
6 fragmentary books · complete surviving text →Rhetoric
The formation of an orator
On the Orator
The education, art, style, and civic vocation of the accomplished orator.
3 books · complete →BRVTVSBrutus
A critical history of Greek and Roman eloquence and its greatest practitioners.
333 sections · complete →ORATOROrator
The ideal speaker, the three styles, and the principles of prose rhythm.
238 sections · complete →Orations
Speech in a political crisis
Letters
The private record of public history
Ad Atticum, Ad familiares, and Ad Quintum fratrem
In preparationTexts: Perseus Digital Library · Translations: Project Gutenberg and Perseus · Word study: LatinCy / Whitaker’s WORDS and Lewis & Short