life_cicero_0809_librivox Anthony Trollope audio librivoxaudio audio_bookspoetry opensource_audio <a href="http://librivox.org/" rel="nofollow">LibriVox</a> recording of The Life of Cicero, Vol. I, by Anthony Trollope. Read by Philippa. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his strength as a politician and as a man. He takes a personal approach, affording us an insight into his own mind and times as well as those of his subject. Volume I covers the period (up to the year 57BC) of Cicero’s education, his rise through the courts and offices of state to the Consulship, and his exile.<br /><br />Please note that footnotes - predominantly bibliographical citations and Latin quotations - are omitted unless explicitly referred to in the main text; the appendices, which consist mainly of more substantial extracts from other works, are likewise omitted. Summary by Philippa For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit <a href="http://librivox.org/" rel="nofollow">LibriVox.org</a>. 2008-09-29 2008 Librivox; audiobook; non-fiction; biography; Cicero; Roman Republic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2008-09-29 21:48:55 info@librivox.org librivoxbooks 2008-09-30 20:33:53 LibriVox Librivox recording of a public-domain text 2008-09-30 21:22:52 librivoxbooks