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Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio By Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio by Marcus Tullius Cicero


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This is a full-scale scholarly edition of Cicero's speech in defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, delivered in 62 BC. It contains an introduction, a newly established Latin text, a commentary and appendices, including a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case.

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Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered Pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and appendices, is the first full-scale scholarly treatment of the speech. The text takes account of Gulielmius' reports of the missing portion of the Erfurtensis manuscript, recovered by Dr Berry and published as a preliminary to this edition in 1989; a complete collation is provided of this and the other principal manuscripts. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case, and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.

Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio Reviews

...a welcome and impressive addition to this small group of distinguished books....Berry offers a wealth of details...and balances linguistic, historical, political, and rhetorical materials more effectively than any other English commentary on a Ciceronian speech. This masterly, magisterial treatment is destined to become the standard commentary on Pro Sulla until well into the 21st century. Choice
Berry's work is excellent. All research libraries and all classical scholars interested in Cicero will want to own it. Christopher P. Craig, Religious Studies Review

Table of Contents

Previous editions and commentaries; Bibliographical lists and surveys; Bibliography and abbreviations; Introduction: I. The life of P. Cornelius Sulla; II. The trial; III. The speech; IV. The manuscripts; Text; Commentary; Appendices: 1. The relationship of P. Sulla to L. Sulla; 2. Codicum P and K lectiones apparatu critico exclusae; Index.

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NLS9780521604215
9780521604215
0521604214
Cicero: Pro P. Sulla oratio by Marcus Tullius Cicero
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2004-05-20
364
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