Oratory with comments and illustrations

Mark Tullius Cicero is a brilliant speaker and politician, a contemporary of Guy Julia Caesar, who found the collapse of the republican institutions of Rome. Philosophy and rhetoric in his understanding were inextricably linked - philosophy explained why a citizen should be virtuous, and the rhetoric showed that even one citizen could become convincing for all fellow citizens. Excerpts from the rhetorical works of Cicero, showing what qualities the speaker should possess, as well as fragments from political works in which the nature of the state and laws are revealed. The third part contains three out of five Tusculan conversations, containing thoughts about the most important philosophical issues - how to remain valiant, glorious and happy in the face of death and thereby gain the immortality of the soul and civilian immortality.

All texts are equipped with detailed comments and clarifications of Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University Alexander Markov.