The Cicero Page

( 106-43 B. C. )
O tempora ! O mores !
Works of Cicero
Many of Cicero's works are available in the Loeb Library, published by Harvard.

Speeches. More than fifty in all. Many are available from Perseus in English translations.
Against Catiline. I- IV. These four and the three following are translated by Michael Grant in Selected Political Speeches. Penguin, 1969.
For Archias.
For Caelius.
For Milo.
For Sextus Roscius. This speech and the three following are translated by Michael Grant in Murder Trials. Penguin, 1975.
For Cluentius.
For King Deiotaurus.
For Gaius Rabirius.
For Murena. Translated by Michael Grant in On Government. Penguin, 1993.
Against Verres. The first speech ( to be followed by five others). Translated by Michael Grant in Selected Works. Penguin, 1960.

Works on Rhetoric. Most conveniently read in the Loeb editions.
Ad Herennium. Not Cicero's work but formerly attributed to him. Some rhetorical doctrine related to Cicero's own. It is an important early Latin treatise of rhetoric.
Invention. An early work by Cicero on one aspect of rhetoric.
Oratory. Treatise in the form of a dialogue.
Brutus. Survey of Roman orators.
The Orator. Cicero on eloquence and what constitutes it.

Essays and Philosophical Works
Old Age. This essay and the three following are in On the Good Life and Selected Works. translated by Michael Grant. Penguin Classics.
Friendship
Duties. (Parts II and III)
"The Dream of Scipio". One of Cicero's most influential works because of a medieval commentary on it by Macrobius ( fl. c. 400). It was originally the last part of Book VI of the Republic, and it will be found translated in the next work listed,
The Republic. Translated by George Holland Sabine and Stanley Barney Smith. Macmillan, 1976.
The Nature of the Gods. Translated by Horace C.P. McGregor. Penguin, 1972.

Letters
Selected Letters. Translated with an Introduction by D.R. Shackleton Bailey. Penguin, 1986.
Ciceronian Texts on Rhetoric

About Cicero
D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero. Scribner, 1971. A biography.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry.
Cicero Look-up Tool from Perseus Project.
Check out the Greek Orators page for references on Classical rhetoric.

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