Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86
Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches Against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose.
This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in L...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 20 décembre 2012
ISBN numérique : 978-1-906924-55-3
Collection : Classics Textbooks
Année d’édition : 2011
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-906924-54-6
Nombre de pages : 199
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches Against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose.
This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids, and a translation. As a literary artefact, the speech gives us insight into how the supreme master of Latin eloquence developed what we would now call rhetorical "spin". As an historical document, it provides a window into the dark underbelly of Rome’s imperial expansion and exploitation of the Near East.
Ingo Gildenhard is currently Professor of Classics and the Classical Tradition at Durham University. In January 2013, he will take up a Lectureship in the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, and a Fellowship at King’s College Cambridge. His previous publications include the monographs Paideia Romana: Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations (Cambridge, 2007) and Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero’s Speeches (Oxford, 2011). He has also published another textbook with Open Book Publishers, Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299.

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