Collection The classical authors
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman orator, politician and philosopher, 106-43 BC
Works
- Academica (45 BC)
- Brutus (46 BC). A history of Roman eloquence.
- Catilinarian Orations (In Catilinam, 63 BC). Four speeches against Catiline.
- Hortensius (45 BC). Lost; according to the Confessions, it was the book that turned Augustine to philosophy.
- Letters to Atticus (Epistulae ad Atticum, 68-44 BC)
- Letters to Friends (Epistulae ad familiares, 62-43 BC)
- On Divination (De divinatione, 44 BC)
- On Duties (De officiis, 44 BC). Addressed to his son Marcus.
- On Fate (De fato, 44 BC)
- On Friendship (Laelius de amicitia, 44 BC)
- On Invention (De inventione). An early work on rhetoric.
- On Old Age (Cato Maior de senectute, 44 BC)
- On the Ends of Good and Evil (De finibus bonorum et malorum, 45 BC)
- On the Laws (De legibus, c. 52 BC). Three books survive.
- On the Nature of the Gods (De natura deorum, 45 BC)
- On the Orator (De oratore, 55 BC)
- On the Republic (De re publica, 54-51 BC). Parts survive, found in a palimpsest in 1819; the Dream of Scipio came down through Macrobius's commentary.
- Orator (46 BC)
- Philippics (Philippicae, 44-43 BC). Fourteen speeches against Mark Antony.
- Stoic Paradoxes (Paradoxa Stoicorum, 46 BC)
- Topica (44 BC)
- Tusculan Disputations (Tusculanae disputationes, 45 BC)
- Verrine Orations (In Verrem, 70 BC). Speeches against Verres, governor of Sicily.