Cicero

De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero''s last theoretical work and contains his analysis in a Greek theoretical framework of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used but this volume aims to render De Officiis which had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. All the standard series features are present including a wholly new translation a concise introduction by a leading scholar select bibliography chronology notes on vocabulary and brief biographies of the most prominent individuals mentioned in the text.