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 PlinyE.S. Shuckburgh (Translator)William Melmoth (Translator)Charles W. Eliot (Editor) 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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  • Publisher: Cosimo Classics
  • ISBN-10: 1-61640-050-1
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-61640-050-7
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  • Published on: February 01, 2010
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  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 444 pages

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