The Hand of Cicero
, by Butler,ShaneNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415251495 | 0415251494
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/22/2002
Charting a course through Cicero's celebrated career, Shane Butler presents the fascinating theory that the success of Rome's greatest orator depended as much on writing as speaking; he also argues against the conventional wisdom that Rome was an oral society, in which writing served only practical, secondary purposes.