

Selections from the Writings of Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/31/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History & Surveys
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
This edition contains three of Cicero's best-known works. In "On Friendship," from his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, Cicero examines the nature of true friendship, which he considers to be based on virtue and dependent upon honesty, truth, and trust. In De Officiis, or "On Duties," written as a letter to his son, Cicero shares his beliefs about the potential conflicts between moral obligation and expedience. Finally, "Scipio's Dream," the sixth book of On the Republic, describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC.