Cicero
Though Scoundrels are Discovered

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

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

“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

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