Cicero, David Llewellyn
Cicero, David Llewellyn
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Cicero
Though Scoundrels are Discovered

Author: David Llewellyn

Narrator: Samuel Barnett, George Naylor, Various

Unabridged: 1 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2017


Synopsis

Rome, 80 B.C. A wealthy landowner has been murdered in the street. His son, Sextus Roscius, is accused of the crime. When every lawyer in the city turns down his case, there's only one man who can save Roscius from a guilty verdict and a particularly grisly execution...Marcus Tullius Cicero: a mere 26 years old but a rising star in the Forum. Together with his brother, Quintus, Cicero must investigate the murder of Roscius' father and find the true culprit. But in their quest for justice, the brothers Cicero may be about to make some very powerful enemies indeed.... ©2017 Big Finish Productions (P)2017 Big Finish Productions

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vicki

This book contains two works. The first one, Brutus, is in the form of a conversation between Cicero, Brutus and Atticus, about who among Greek and Roman orators were great, and why. Cicero does most of the talking. I had a hard time getting into this one, because Cicero doesn't really detail why ce......more

Goodreads review by Brent

I didn't read "Brutus," only "Orator." I originally started reading "Orator" thinking it was Cicero's "On the Orator," which is a separate book. But after learning they were different, I finished it anyway. This book would be much more beneficial if Latin was my mother tongue, but, as a rhetoric tea......more

Goodreads review by Zachary

“For the address of philosophers is gentle, and fond of retirement, and not furnished with popular ideas or popular expressions, not fettered by any particular rhythm, but allowed a good deal of liberty. It has in it nothing angry, nothing envious, nothing energetic, nothing marvellous, nothing cunn......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

A thought provoking, insightful perspective into the layered mind of Marcus Tullius Cicero, whose genuinely beautiful prose takes us through a crash course on Roman oratory, as presented in a perhaps fictionalized explanation of the rise and fall of oratory to the young, aspiring orator Marcus Brutu......more