On Duties (Cicero - Miller transl.)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Translator: Walter Miller

ISBN: 9781944482114

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

The three books that make up On Duties are full of historical examples which are worth their weight in gold. They, like Homeric similes, are marvelous windows into an age that is not described in any ancient texts since the audience of the texts are written to people who shared the age and therefore needed no descriptions. But they also give us Cicero's own culturally conservative interpretations of the events of his time, and this is very valuable indeed.