This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS
and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections
1–7 and 10–11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections
27–32 and 35–37, giving full Latin text, commentary and
vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the
prescribed poems to be read in English for A Level. In 66 BC, Aulus
Cluentius Habitus was tried for the attempted murder of Statius Albius
Oppianicus the Elder. The prosecutor was Sassia, Cluentius' own
mother. Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famous statesman, orator and
lawyer, defended Cluentius in his Pro Cluentio, a persuasive
oratorical tour de force. The selections in this edition prove that
Cicero was not above using character assassinations in his speeches,
first attacking Oppianicus the Elder, then Sassia in a vivid,
melodramatic narrative which distracts and diverts the jury from
Cluentius' alleged crimes. Resources are available on the Companion
Website.
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ISBN
9781350060357
Publisert
2020
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Bloomsbury UK
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Engelsk
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