All of Cicero's speeches

In this volume, for the first time, the reader can hold all the speeches of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest orator of antiquity - and perhaps it is no exaggeration - in the history of the world - in Hungarian! Quintilian writes of Cicero: “... he was born as a gift of providence, that in him all the power of eloquence might be expressed. ... It is believed that he can easily achieve even what he squeezes out, and when he grabs the judge with his mighty force in the opposite direction to his position, it still seems as if he has not swept away with him, but has followed him voluntarily. . This voice, though captivating, is by no means exaggerated: Cicero's work is truly the pinnacle of Roman prose literature, sparkling in an age that, like Athens of Pericles, produced an intellectual and artistic concentration of intellectual and artistic energy that was unprecedented before and after. in its noise and bloodstorm. The fact that Cicero was the most genius of this era and the most impressively influential for the two millennia that followed is beyond dispute - as is the fact that the existential foundations of his political and theoretical work and the popularity that surrounds and sustains him are largely created it. His speeches, then, are at least as integral a part of his work as his theoretical works and the letters that show him to us as a person in their own reality. The translations are preceded by an introduction, in which Cicero's life and the historical, political and legal background and structure of each oratio are briefly reviewed. (Excerpts from the Preface to the book)