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Life of Cicero, Vol. II

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his strength as a politician and as a man. He takes a personal approach, affording us an insight into his own mind and times as well as those of his subject.

This second volume of two covers his last years, BC 57-43 and the personal and political upheavals that surrounded them: the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, the death of his daughter Tullia, Caesar's dictatorship and assassination, Cicero's antagonism against Antony in the Philippics and his final struggle for the republic. Having used Cicero's letters and speeches to guide his biography, Trollope treats his other works (what he terms 'moral essays', and works on philosophy and rhetoric), and his religious beliefs, in separate chapters at the end of this volume, to which is also appended his own translation of Cicero's 'Dream of Scipio' from the De re publica. (Summary by Philippa)

Year of Publication: 1880Genres: Biography & Autobiography

Running Time: 11 hours 58 minutes 29 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Chapter 1 - His Return from Exile, Part 1 Philippa	31:24
2	Chapter 1 - His Return from Exile, Part 2 Philippa	32:17
3	Chapter 2 - Cicero, aetat. 52, 53 and 54 Philippa	43:19
4	Chapter 3 - Milo Philippa	35:02
5	Chapter 4 - Cilicia, Part 1 Philippa	36:52
6	Chapter 4 - Cilicia, Part 2 Philippa	30:53
7	Chapter 5 - The War between Caesar and Pompey Philippa	41:01
8	Chapter 6 - After the Battle Philippa	42:14
9	Chapter 7 - Marcellus, Ligarius and Deiotarus, Part 1 Philippa	25:34
10	Chapter 7 - Marcellus, Ligarius and Deiotarus, Part 2 Philippa	28:19
11	Chapter 8 - Caesar’s Death, Part 1 Philippa	23:07
12	Chapter 8 - Caesar’s Death, Part 2 Philippa	28:14
13	Chapter 9 - The Philippics, Part 1 Philippa	40:56
14	Chapter 9 - The Philippics, Part 2 Philippa	40:59
15	Chapter 10 - Cicero’s Death Philippa	41:13
16	Chapter 11 - Cicero’s Rhetoric, Part 1 Philippa	37:03
17	Chapter 11 - Cicero’s Rhetoric, Part 2 Philippa	29:15
18	Chapter 12 - Cicero’s Philosophy, Part 1 Philippa	30:08
19	Chapter 12 - Cicero’s Philosophy, Part 2 Philippa	30:00
20	Chapter 13 - Cicero’s Moral Essays Philippa	35:31
21	Chapter 14 - Cicero’s Religion Philippa	23:30
22	Appendix - Scipio's Dream Philippa	11:38