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

The Life of Cicero, Vol. II, 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. II, 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. This second volume of two covers his last years, BC 57-43 and the personal and political upheavals that surrounded them: the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, the death of his daughter Tullia, Caesar's dictatorship and assassination, Cicero's antagonism against Antony in the Philippics and his final struggle for the republic. Having used Cicero's letters and speeches to guide his biography, Trollope treats his other works (what he terms 'moral essays', and works on philosophy and rhetoric), and his religious beliefs, in separate chapters at the end of this volume, to which is also appended his own translation of Cicero's 'Dream of Scipio' from the De re publica. The first volume can be found here. (Summary by Philippa)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Life of Cicero, Vol. II
• Author credits: Anthony Trollope
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 11:58:29

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• biography
• Cicero
• Roman Republic

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1, His Return from Exile, Part 1 — 31:25
2. 02 - Chapter 1, His Return from Exile, Part 2 — 32:18
3. 03 - Chapter 2 , Cicero, aetat. 52, 53 and 54 — 43:19
4. 04 - Chapter 3, Milo — 35:02
5. 05 - Chapter 4, Cilicia, Part 1 — 36:52
6. 06 - Chapter 4, Cilicia, Part 2 — 30:53
7. 07 - Chapter 5, The War Between Caesar and Pompey — 41:01
8. 08 - Chapter 6, After the Battle — 42:15
9. 09 - Chapter 7, Marcellus, Ligarius, and Deiotarus, Part 1 — 25:35
10. 10 - Chapter 7, Marcellus, Ligarius, and Deiotarus, Part 2 — 28:20
11. 11 - Chapter 8, Caesar's Death, Part 1 — 23:08
12. 12 - Chapter 8, Caesar's Death, Part 2 — 28:14
13. 13 - Chapter 9, The Philippics, Part 1 — 40:57
14. 14 - Chapter 9, The Philippics, Part 2 — 40:59
15. 15 - Chapter 10, Cicero's Death — 41:13
16. 16 - Chapter 11, Cicero's Rhetoric, Part 1 — 37:04
17. 17 - Chapter 11, Cicero's Rhetoric, Part 2 — 29:16
18. 18 - Chapter 12, Cicero's Philosophy, Part 1 — 30:09
19. 19 - Chapter 12, Cicero's Philosophy, Part 2 — 30:01
20. 20 - Chapter 13, Cicero's Moral Essays — 35:32
21. 21 - Chapter 14, Cicero's Religion — 23:31
22. 22 - Appendix: Scipio's Dream — 11:39

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