{"product_id":"ciceros-de-oratare-book-i-public-speech-civic-judgment-and-the-education-of-the-roman-soul-paperback-1","title":"Cicero's De Oratare Book I: Public Speech, Civic Judgment, and the Education of the Roman Soul - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason S. Kassel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eCicero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Book I of \u003ci\u003eDe Oratore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCicero\u003c\/b\u003e stages one of the most important conversations in the history of political thought: what kind of human being is fit to speak for a republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 91 BCE at the Tusculan villa of Lucius Crassus, the dialogue unfolds as a dramatic gathering of Rome's greatest legal and political minds on the eve of civil collapse. As the Republic strains under ambition, faction, and the loss of shared judgment, Cicero asks a question that remains urgent: is public speech a technical craft, or a moral-political capacity formed by education, character, and lived civic responsibility?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis translation does not reduce \u003ci\u003eDe Oratore\u003c\/i\u003e to a rhetoric manual. Instead, it restores the work as Cicero conceived it: a philosophical drama about \u003cb\u003ejudgment, law, education, and the conditions of free political life\u003c\/b\u003e. Crassus, Antonius, and Scaevola debate whether eloquence can exist apart from wisdom; whether speech shapes cities or merely adorns them; and whether a republic can survive when its speakers lack inner formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Roman concepts are rendered as stable philosophical terms-\u003cb\u003eLeisure-with-Dignity (\u003ci\u003eotium cum dignitate\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRes Publica\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eNatural-Capacity\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePublic-Speech\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJudgment (\u003ci\u003eiudicium\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e-and repeated deliberately to preserve Cicero's argumentative architecture. The dialogue is structured for clarity and cadence, allowing the text to be read not only as philosophy, but as living speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for readers of political philosophy, classical education, law, and civic theory, this edition presents \u003ci\u003eDe Oratore\u003c\/i\u003e as a meditation on republican speech in an age of instability. It is Cicero not as stylist, but as political diagnostician-examining how societies fail when speech separates from truth, character, and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is part of the \u003cb\u003ePoetic Philosophy Presents\u003c\/b\u003e series, which restores classical texts as coherent philosophical structures rather than technical fragments-works meant to be read, heard, and judged as living arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48444923412701,"sku":"9798902839132","price":16.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/QZzIO-8oPN9798902839132_1f65c266-e81b-49ea-9630-0085a4d5d478.webp?v=1787759948","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/ciceros-de-oratare-book-i-public-speech-civic-judgment-and-the-education-of-the-roman-soul-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}