De Oratore
On the Orator
ancient world
graeco-roman
rhetoric
De Oratore is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BC. It is set in 91 BC, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before the Social War and the civil war between Marius and Sulla, during which Marcus Antonius, the other great orator of this dialogue, dies. During this year, the author faces a difficult political situation: after his return from exile in Dyrrachium, his house was destroyed by the gangs of Clodius in a time when violence was common. This was intertwined with the street politics of Rome.— Wikipedia
Translations
Brutus; Orator
tr. G. L. Hendrickson, H. M. Hubbell · Harvard University Press · United States · 1971
