About oratory. Cicero

Cicero is considered one of the most brilliant speakers of antiquity, an era in which the art of speaking speech was revered by one of the most important. In Rome, the word in the lips of the speaker was compared with a sword in the hands of a warrior. Therefore, it is not surprising that honor and respect that Ciceron provided, the great speaker, who embodied the spiritual ideals of Greek philosophers in his speeches and written works.

The real edition included two treatises of Cicero on oratory, in which the author not only shares the experience and principles of his craft, but also discusses the ideal image of the speaker as an exponent of the human ideal of his time: a human being, husband of a word And the deeds that combined the philosophical depth of knowledge and the practical skill of actions.

The texts are accompanied by detailed comments by M. L. Gasparov.