Selections from Cicero Pro Cluentio
An Edition for Intermediate Students
Selections from Cicero Pro Cluentio
An Edition for Intermediate Students
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This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Cicero's Pro Cluentio. Sections 1–7, 10–11, 27–32 and 35–37 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of the longer work and inspiring further study of it. A detailed introduction explains points of historical and stylistic interest.
In 66 BC, Aulus Cluentius Habitus was tried for the attempted murder of Statius Albius Oppianicus the Elder. The prosecutor was Sassia, Cluentius' own mother. Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famous statesman, orator and lawyer, defended Cluentius in his Pro Cluentio, a persuasive oratorical tour de force. The selections in this edition prove that Cicero was not above using character assassinations in his speeches, first attacking Oppianicus the Elder, then Sassia in a vivid, melodramatic narrative which distracts and diverts the jury from Cluentius' alleged crimes.
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Product details
| Published | 15 Dec 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781501350153 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Bloomsbury Classical Languages |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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