The Life of Cicero

Name: The Life of Cicero
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Plutarch
ISBN: 9781509492800

Author: Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Unabridged: 1 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Sommelier

Published: 04/27/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Roman History, Biography & Autobiography, Historical Biography

Synopsis

In “The Life of Cicero,” Plutarch details the priceless contributions Cicero made to Roman society. He translated the works of Greek philosophers into Latin, gained acclaim as an orator and lawyer, and was elected to office. Politics ultimately got the better of him, however, and his life ended in assassination while in exile. Cicero’s ideas live on through his body of work, but to learn about the man himself, Plutarch’s biography is an excellent starting point.

About Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

The Great Orator 7 February 2020 I first heard of Cicero back in university when we were studying his letters, and we certainly have quite a lot of them. In fact, even Plutarch makes a specific point about the number of letters that he had written, and that have been saved as well. This I must admit......more

Goodreads review by Peter

The Life of Cicero by Plutarch [URL not allowed]-re... I read this for the Online Great Books program. Cicero has held a conflicted position throughout history. He was a gifted orator, writer, and thinker. His lost text, Hortensius turned St. Augustine towards the direction of philosop......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor

The audiobook has some slight imperfections - I counted at least three times that the narrator, Andrea Giordani, repeated herself as if she had lost her place in the text and reread a line without realizing it. Thus, I give this book only 4 stars, although the content itself is worth more like 4.5 s......more