The Roman Republic of Letters. Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar, Hardback - Katharina Volk

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): CiceroTranslator: Horace McGregorNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 1978Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 18Cover t...