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Gesine Manuwald, Cicero, Agrarian Speeches Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary, Oxford, 2018.

Éditeur : Oxford University Press
544 pages
ISBN : 9780198715405
110 £

The Agrarian Speeches (Orationes de lege agraria) were delivered in January 63 BCE, just after Cicero had entered office as consul; they are his inaugural orations and therefore the first element of his consular activity. They not only provide valuable testimony for approaches to agrarian legislation in the late Republic, but also show how the new consul presented himself before the Senate and the People at the beginning of his consular year, a significant political event for which very few extensive sources remain.

Introduction

1. Scholarship
2. Historical background
2.1. The political situation in 64/63 BCE
2.2. Roman agrarian laws
2.2.1. Roman agrarian laws (before and after 64/63 BCE) and Cicero's position
2.2.2. Rullus' agrarian bill of 64/63 BCE
2.3. Procedural context
2.4. Cicero the consul
3. The corpus of the Agrarian Speeches
3.1. Title and structure
3.2. Delivery and publication
3.3. Political and rhetorical strategies
4. Note on text and translation

Text and translation
Testimonia
De lege agraria 1 / Agrarian Speech 1
De lege agraria 2 / Agrarian Speech 2
De lege agraria 3 / Agrarian Speech 3
Commentary
Testimonia
Introduction
Notes
Agrarian Speech 1
Introduction
Outline of structure and contents
Notes
Agrarian Speech 2
Introduction
Outline of structure and contents
Notes
Agrarian Speech 3
Introduction
Outline of structure and contents
Notes
Endmatter
Bibliography
1. Editions, commentaries, and translations of Cicero's Agrarian Speeches
2. Other works cited
Indexes
1. Names (of people and places)
2. Subjects

Source : Oxford University Press