Cicerón — Cartas a Ático, vol. 1 de 3
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio · 4 pasajes ilegibles, excluidos de las respuestas
- Extensión:
- ~130.000 palabras · 639 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APACicerón. (n.d.). Cicerón — Cartas a Ático, vol. 1 de 3. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-1-of-3
- MLACicerón. "Cicerón — Cartas a Ático, vol. 1 de 3." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-1-of-3.
- ChicagoCicerón. Cicerón — Cartas a Ático, vol. 1 de 3. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-1-of-3.
De qué trata
El primer de los tres volúmenes de las cartas de Cicerón a Ático: la correspondencia más franca que nos ha llegado de la antigüedad.
Contexto e historia
Ático era su amigo de toda la vida, un caballero rico que nunca quiso cargo público, y precisamente por eso Cicerón le escribe como no escribe a nadie más: sin posar, cambiando de opinión a la mitad de una carta, pidiendo consejo y confesando miedo. Es la fuente principal para los últimos años de la república vistos desde dentro. AVISO AL LECTOR: en el catálogo está también «The Letters of Cicero», una edición distinta que recoge toda la correspondencia por orden cronológico, y por tanto las cartas a Ático salen TAMBIÉN allí. No es un error: son dos ediciones distintas del mismo material, con traducción y ordenación diferentes. Conviene saberlo porque una misma carta puede aparecer dos veces con palabras distintas, y la cita debe decir de qué edición viene.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
The letters contained in this volume cover a large and important period in Cicero’s life and in the history of Rome. They begin when he was 38 years of age; and at first they are not very numerous. There are only two of that year (68 B.C.), six of the following year, one of the year 66, when he held the praetorship, and two of 65. Then there is a gap in his correspondence. No letters at all survive from the period of his consulship and the Catilinarian conspiracy; and the letters to Atticus do not begin again until two years after that event. Thereafter they are sufficiently frequent to justify Cornelius Nepos’ criticism, that reading them, one has little need of an elaborate history of the period. There are full—almost too full—details, considering the frequent complaints and repetitions, during the year of his banishment (58–57 B.C.), and the correspondence continues unbroken to the year 54. Then after a lapse of two years or more, which Atticus presumably spent in Rome, it begins again in 51, when Cicero was sent to Cilicia as pro-consul, much against his will; and the volume ends with a hint of the trouble that was brewing between Caesar and Pompey, as Cicero was returning to Rome towards the end of the next year. The letters have been translated in the traditionary order in which they are usually printed. That order, however, is not strictly chronological; and, for the convenience of those who would read them in their historical order, a table arranging them so far as possible in order of date has been drawn up at the end of the volume. For the basis of the text the Teubner edition has been used; but it has been revised by comparison with more recent works and papers on the subject. Textual notes have only been given in a few cases where the reading is especially corrupt or uncertain; and other notes too have been confined to cases where they seemed absolutely indispensable.…