Les cartes de Ciceró, volum 1
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Text net · 4 passatges il·legibles, exclosos de les respostes
- Extensió:
- ~170.000 paraules · 812 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APACiceró. (n.d.). Les cartes de Ciceró, volum 1. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/cicero/the-letters-of-cicero-volume-1
- MLACiceró. "Les cartes de Ciceró, volum 1." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/cicero/the-letters-of-cicero-volume-1.
- ChicagoCiceró. Les cartes de Ciceró, volum 1. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/cicero/the-letters-of-cicero-volume-1.
De què tracta
El primer volum de la correspondencia de Ciceró: prop de novecentes cartes seves i dels seus corresponsals que van sobreviure per accident i que son la font mes intima que tenim de tota l'antiguitat.
Context i història
No estaven escrites per publicar-se, i aixo es tot. Aqui Ciceró dubta, es queixa, calcula, canvia d'opinio i es contradiu, cosa que no fa mai als discursos ni als tractats. El corresponsal principal es Atic, el seu amic de tota la vida, amb qui parla sense guardar-se res. Com que cobreixen els anys de la caiguda de la republica, son alhora el testimoni personal i la cronica politica del periode: es veu la maquinaria del poder roma des de dins i en temps real, sense l'ordre que hi posa la historia escrita despres. Aquest volum arriba fins als anys anteriors a la guerra civil; la resta continua als volums seguents.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
AUTHOR OF A TRANSLATION OF POLYBIUS, A HISTORY OF ROME, ETC IN FOUR VOLUMES VOL. I. B.C. 68-52 LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS CHISWICK PRESS:--CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. PREFACE The object of this book is to give the English-speaking public, in a convenient form, as faithful and readable a copy as the translator was capable of making of a document unique in the literature of antiquity. Whether we regard the correspondence of Cicero from the point of view of the biographer and observer of character, the historian, or the lover of _belles lettres_, it is equally worthy of study. It seems needless to dwell on the immense historical importance of letters written by prominent actors in one of the decisive periods of the world's history, when the great Republic, that had spread its victorious arms, and its law and discipline, over the greater part of the known world, was in the throes of its change from the old order to the new. If we would understand--as who would not?--the motives and aims of the men who acted in that great drama, there is nowhere that we can go with better hope of doing so than to these letters. To the student of character also the personality of Cicero must always have a great fascination. Statesman, orator, man of letters, father, husband, brother, and friend--in all these capacities he comes before us with singular vividness. In every one of them he will doubtless rouse different feelings in different minds. But though he will still, as he did in his lifetime, excite vehement disapproval as well as strong admiration, he will never, I think, appear to anyone dull or uninteresting.…