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How to Win an Argument
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an …
How to Be a Friend
A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the …
Romersk retorikk
Cicero, Quintilian og Tacticus, tre av dei fremste retorikarane frå det gamle Roma, drøftar her spørsmål om språkleg påverknad og tek opp filosofiske problemstillingar.
Tusculian Disputations
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original …
How to Run a Country
Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry …
How to Tell a Joke
Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audienceCan jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he …
Cicero: On Duties
De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero’s last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw …
Retorikk og filosofi
To tekstar av Cicero der han fører vidare diskusjonen om tilhøvet mellom retorikk og filosofi. Den fyrste er Orator (Talaren), eit av dei siste større verk han skrev om retorikk. …
How to Think about God
A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing …
Cicero: De re publica
Cicero’s De re publica contains the fullest ancient account of the theory of the mixed constitution and the oldest extant narrative of early Roman history; it concludes with the …
Cicero: On Moral Ends
This 2001 translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy available to modern readers. Cicero is increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and …
Om talaren : första boken
"Min ståndpunkt är att vältaligheten måste vara grundad i en teoretisk skolning av gedignaste art [...] Vältalighet är grundad i summan av alla de färdigheter, av vilka framgång …