CLA160H1 Lecture : Roman Philsophy & Writings
Document Summary
One of the nice things here is that a hundred, hundred-and-fifty, years don"t have to be zipped through. We have hundreds of letters, written across several decades, to his life-long friend atticus, his brother quintus, and innumerable important romans. They give a lot of insight into the gossip and personalities behind the figures and laws who we only have snippets of. The letters of cicero were apparently published at the time, and even then was recognized at giving a detailed and multi-faceted view of the history of the time. We get cicero"s reactions to the civil war between caesar and pompey he was really afraid caesar would become dictator, restart prescription against his enemies, as sulla had years earlier. Cicero agonizes over whether he should fight against caesar, or sit it out. After caesar won, cicero began to change his opinion of caesar.
