The Life of Cicero, Vol. I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Life of Cicero, Vol. I, credited to Anthony Trollope, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Life of Cicero, Vol. I, by Anthony Trollope. Read by Philippa. 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. Volume I covers the period (up to the year 57BC) of Cicero’s education, his rise through the courts and offices of state to the Consulship, and his exile. Please note that footnotes - predominantly bibliographical citations and Latin quotations - are omitted unless explicitly referred to in the main text; the appendices, which consist mainly of more substantial extracts from other works, are likewise omitted. Summary by Philippa

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Life of Cicero, Vol. I
• Author credits: Anthony Trollope
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 10:57:34

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• biography
• Cicero
• Roman Republic

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1, Introduction, Part 1 — 37:21
2. 02 - Chapter 1, Introduction, Part 2 — 29:39
3. 03 - Chapter 2, His Education — 45:27
4. 04 - Chapter3, The Condition of Rome — 35:09
5. 05 - Chapter4, His Early Pleadings, Part 1 — 28:31
6. 06 - Chapter 4, His Early Pleadings, Part 2 — 24:22
7. 07 - Chapter 5, Cicero as Quaestor — 35:51
8. 08 - Chapter 6, Verres, Part 1 — 35:20
9. 09 - Chapter 6, Verres, Part 2 — 44:21
10. 10 - Chapter 7, Cicero as Aedile and Praetor — 42:48
11. 11 - Chapter 8, Cicero as Consul — 41:43
12. 12 - Chapter 9, Catiline, Part 1 — 27:23
13. 13 - Chapter 9, Catiline, Part 2 — 43:13
14. 14 - Chapter 10, Cicero After His Consulship — 45:42
15. 15 - Chapter 11, The Triumvirate, Part 1 — 37:31
16. 16 - Chapter 11, The Triumvirate, Part 2 — 29:10
17. 17 - Chapter 12, His Exile, Part 1 — 32:04
18. 18 - Chapter 12, His Exile, Part 2 — 42:15

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