A Cicero Reader

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A Cicero Reader
Selections from 5 Essays and 4 Speeches, with 5 Letters
James M. May

(forthcoming) 5” x 7.75” Paperback
ISBN 978-0-86516-713-3

This Latin reader offers 14 selections from the works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, philosopher, and man of letters, who lived (106-43 BCE) during the final generations of the Roman Republic. Passages have been selected from Cicero's orations, his rhetorical and philosophical writings, and his letters. Each of the passages (which vary in length from 25 to 60 lines) has a detailed commentary, explicating grammatical, syntactical, and historical points of interest.

The volume also contains an introduction, a full vocabulary, a chronological table of important dates and events in Cicero's life, three maps, and a bibliography. Illustrations may also be included.

Features:
Introduction that situates Lucan in his literary, historical, and ideological context
Notes at the back
Map of the eastern Mediterranean in Caesar’s day
Bibliography
Full Vocabulary

James M. May is Professor of Classics and Provost and Dean of the College at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he has taught since 1977, after finishing his doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published extensively in the fields of ancient rhetoric, pedagogy, and in particular, Ciceronian oratory. He is co-author (with Anne Groton) of Thirty-Eight Latin Stories (1986), the author of Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos (1988), co-author (with Jakob Wisse) of Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (2001), and editor of Brill’s Companion to Cicero: Rhetoric and Oratory (2002). He has been the recipient of four NEH awards, the American Philological Association’s Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics, and The Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. He has served as Vice-President for Education for the American Philological Association, Director of its Campus Advisory Service, and currently as its Vice-President for Professional Matters. He has been the President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and currently serves as the Association’s official orator.