Cicero De re publica Selections [Paperback]

Contains the Latin text of most of the surviving parts of Cicero's most elaborate philosophical dialogue.Containing the Latin text of most of the surviving parts of Cicero's most elaborate philosophical dialogue, this edition of a major document in the history of European political theory includes a full commentary that explains its philosophical and historical argument, grammar and style.Containing the Latin text of most of the surviving parts of Cicero's most elaborate philosophical dialogue, this edition of a major document in the history of European political theory includes a full commentary that explains its philosophical and historical argument, grammar and style.This edition contains the Latin text of most of the surviving parts of Cicero's most elaborate philosophical dialogue, De re publica, together with a full commentary explaining the philosophical and historical argument, and elucidating the grammar and style. De re publica is a major document in the history of European political theory, and a masterpiece of Ciceronian style. This is the fullest commentary ever to appear in English.Introduction: 1. Context; 2. Composition, setting, form; 3. Argument, structure, sources; 4. Style; 5. Text; M. TVLLI CICERONIS DE RE PVBLICA LIBRI; Commentary.