Treatises On Friendship And Old Age: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Treatises On Friendship And Old Age, credited to Marcus Tullius Cicero, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Treatises On Friendship And Old Age by Marcus Tullius Cicero. (Translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh.) Read in English by Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The influence of Cicero upon the history of European literature and ideas greatly exceeds that of any other prose writer in any language.” - Summary by David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: Treatises On Friendship And Old Age
• Author credits: Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 3:11:37

Catalogue topics

• essays
• Friendship
• old age

Track guide

1. 00 - Introductory Note — 9:49
2. 01 - On Friendship Part 1 — 48:41
3. 02 - On Friendship Part 2 — 47:12
4. 03 - On Old Age Part 1 — 45:08
5. 04 - On Old Age Part 2 — 40:47

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.