Cicero

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not have seen the light of day without the advice and support of Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson and the generous temerity of Grant McIntyre at John Murray in taking on a greenhorn. A special debt of gratitude goes to Antony Wood, with whose kindly but ruthless editorial support a shapeless bundle of pages was put into good order, and to Joy de Menil of Random House, whose sharp-eyed enthusiasm refocused the biography for the American reader. However, whatever is flawed in my study of Cicero is nobody’s responsibility but my own.

I am deeply indebted to D. R. Shackleton Bailey for permission to reproduce passages from his translation of Cicero: Letters to Atticus and to His Friends in the Penguin Classics edition.

I am grateful to the Publishers and Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library for their kind permission to reprint passages from Cicero, vol. XVI, Loeb Classical Library Volume L213, translated by Clinton Walker Keyes, pp. 167, 245, 317, 345, 347, 361, 367, 373, 375, 499, 503, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928. (The Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.)

I should also like to thank Penguin Books, Ltd., for permission to reproduce passages from the following translations of works by Cicero which appeared in Penguin Classics: Letters to Atticus and to His Friends, Copyright © D. R. Shackleton Bailey, 1978; Selected Political Speeches, Copyright © Michael Grant Publications, Ltd., 1969; Sallust, The Jugurthine War; Conspiracy of Catiline, Copyright © the Estate of S. A. Handford, 1963; and Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic, Copyright © Rex Warner, 1958.

For the illustrated reconstruction of the Roman Forum, I am indebted to John E. Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City, p. 112. © 1988 [Copyright holder]. Reprinted with permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press.