Resources

Primary Texts

Translations & Critical Latin Editions

  • Few translations or critical Latin editions will surpass C.W. Keyes' work for the Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero's De re Publica and De Legibus (Harvard University Press, 1928).
  • Alternatively, Niall Rudd's translation (Oxford University Press, 2009) for the Oxford World Classic's series acts as an excellent and more modern version of the English.

Secondary Texts

Works on Cicero

  • In Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Random House, 2002), Anthony Everitt looks into Cicero's extensive and engaging involvement in Rome's constantly shifting political landscape.
  • Katharyn Tempest's Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) offers a recent and more scholarly approach to the great orator's life.
  • Edited by Catherine Steel, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge University Press, 2013) provides a fantastic scholarly introduction to Cicero's life and work.