Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics Vol. IX

Translator names not noted above: E.S. Shuckburgh William Melmoth F.C.T. Bosanquet Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature philosophy history and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926) Harvard Universitys longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliots Five Foot Shelf it represented Eliots belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume IX features: - three works by Roman philosopher MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO (106 BC-43 BC): the dialogue On Friendship a timeless consideration of that happy state; the essay On Old Age his reflections on aging and death; and his Letters including his thoughts on matters both personal and political - the Letters of Roman lawyer PLINY THE YOUNGER (61-c. 112) which remain some of the most valuable firsthand documents we have of the period particularly since he moved in politically important circles; the letters include his eyewitness account of the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.