Cicero's Consulship Campaign
A Selection of Sources Relating to Cicero's Election as Consul for 63BC, Including ‘A Short Guide to Electioneering’

A sourcebook on Cicero's consulship campaign, with a range of translated primary texts to support ancient history students.

M. G. L. Cooley (Edited and translated by)

9781009383523, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 July 2023

53 pages
27 x 18 x 0.6 cm, 0.116 kg

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series features primary texts relating to Cicero's campaign for the consulship of 63 BC, with an accompanying glossary and timeline. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include two letters to Atticus, extracts from two speeches and Asconius' commentary on Cicero's speech as a candidate, and 'A Short Guide to Electioneering' attributed to Quintus Cicero.

1. Two letters of Cicero to Atticus, 1.1 and 1.2
2. 'A Short Guide to Electioneering': (?) Quintus Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis
3. Asconius' commentary on Cicero's speech as a candidate: Asconius, in orationem in toga candida
4. Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, against Rullus, 2.1–8
5. Cicero, In Defence of Murena, 21–25, 37–38, 41–44.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]