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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. IX (in 51 volumes)
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pliny
E.S. Shuckburgh (Translator)
William Melmoth (Translator)
Charles W. Eliot (Editor)
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| Translator names not noted above: E.S. Shuckburgh, William Melmoth, F.C.T. Bosanquet Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume IX features: • three works by Roman philosopher MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO (106 BC-43 BC): the dialogue On Friendship, a timeless consideration of that happy state; the essay On Old Age, his reflections on aging and death; and his Letters, including his thoughts on matters both personal and political • the Letters of Roman lawyer PLINY THE YOUNGER (61-c. 112), which remain some of the most valuable firsthand documents we have of the period, particularly since he moved in politically important circles; the letters include his eyewitness account of the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
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| Product Details |
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- ISBN-10: 1-61640-049-8
- ISBN-13: 978-1-61640-049-1
- Amazon.com Sales Rank #6626402
- Published on: February 01, 2010
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 444 pages
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