Orator

The Life of Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic

Catharine Edwards (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

528 Seiten

2026
Hutchinson Heinemann (Verlag)
978-1-5291-5225-8 (ISBN)

Infos

When the great Roman orator Cicero was murdered in the Autumn of 43 BCE, Fulvia, the wife of Marc Antony, had his tongue cut out and pierced with pins, so great a weapon it was. But Cicero was more than a brilliant orator - his life almost perfectly mirrors the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, and his actions and reactions to the rising tyranny of the world around him continue to fascinate and inspire today.

In this gripping new biography, historian Catharine Edwards will breathe new life into one the ancient world's most notable figures, and offer a fresh take on the end of the Roman Republic. The book examines Cicero's life for what it can tell us about a turbulent society, in which longstanding tensions and inequalities were exacerbated by the wealth of empire, and ambitious generals battled to seize control and remake Rome.

Autor

Catharine Edwards is a professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London where she has been since 2006, and is one of the world's foremost experts on Roman History. A Fellow of the British Academy, she has published extensively on Roman cultural history. She translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars for Oxford World's Classics, is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, presented a three-part TV series on Roman imperial women for BBC Four in 2018, and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2026
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 240 mm
• Gewicht: 750 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• ISBN-10: 1-5291-5225-9 / 1529152259
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5291-5225-8 / 9781529152258
• Zustand: Neuware