Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages. Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition of the work that is informed by a full analysis of its translation. Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
