Murder Trials (Penguin Classics)
ISBN-13:
9780140442885
ISBN-10:
014044288X
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publication date:
1975
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
Europe
,
Murder & Mayhem
,
True Crime
,
Rome
,
Ancient Civilizations History
,
Criminal Law
,
Legal Profession
,
Legal Education
,
Historical
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ISBN-13:
9780140442885
ISBN-10:
014044288X
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publication date:
1975
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Paperback
368 pages
Category:
Europe
,
Murder & Mayhem
,
True Crime
,
Rome
,
Ancient Civilizations History
,
Criminal Law
,
Legal Profession
,
Legal Education
,
Historical
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Murder Trials (Penguin Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780140442885 and ISBN-10: 014044288X), written by authors
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"Whereas the place for prejudice is a public meeting, a court of law is the adobe of truth."
Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches for Cluentius and Rabirius), he built a reputation as the greatest orator of his time.
Cicero defended his practice partly on moral or compassionate grounds of "human decency" - sentiments with which we today would agree. His clients generally went free. And in vindicating men - who sometimes did not deserve it - he left us a mass of detail about Roman life, law and history and, in two of the speeches, graphic pictures of the "gun-law" of small provincial towns.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches for Cluentius and Rabirius), he built a reputation as the greatest orator of his time.
Cicero defended his practice partly on moral or compassionate grounds of "human decency" - sentiments with which we today would agree. His clients generally went free. And in vindicating men - who sometimes did not deserve it - he left us a mass of detail about Roman life, law and history and, in two of the speeches, graphic pictures of the "gun-law" of small provincial towns.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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