This selection of Cicero\'s Letters not merely documents in detail Cicero\'s career but simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny.
It provides a vivid picture of daily life and politics in Rome, the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero\'s vain resistance to the rise of Mark Antony..
This selection of Cicero\'s Letters not merely documents in detail Cicero\'s career but simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny