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7 best books like Murder Trials (Marcus Tullius Cicero): The Agricola and The Germania, The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Civil War, Amori, The Rope and Other Plays, Electra and Other Plays, The Plays and Fragments

The Agricola and The Germania
AuthorTacitus
ISBN0140442413
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
The Rise of the Roman Empire
AuthorPolybius
ISBN0140443622
Polybius, himself a Greek and an active contemporary participant in political relations with Rome, wrote the forty books of his Universal History primarily to chronicle and account for the Roman conquest of Greece between 200 and 167 B.C. He saw that Mediterranean history, under Rome's influence,...
The Civil War
AuthorGaius Julius Caesar
ISBN0140441875
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman...
Amori
AuthorOvid
ISBN8817165212
Testo latino a fronte

Gli Amori sono probabilmente il libro latino di versi che ha avuto più fortuna nella storia. Quello che ancora affascina, in queste poesie, è il loro delizioso libertinaggio: una frivolezza, una volubilità, una mutabilità infinite che sono una condizione intellettuale...
The Rope and Other Plays
AuthorPlautus
ISBN0140441360
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters...
Electra and Other Plays
AuthorEuripides
alternate cover for ISBN: 0140446680
Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters & acute insight into destructive passion,...
The Plays and Fragments
AuthorMenander
ISBN0192839837
The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors....
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