D H Berry Books

Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. This book presents nine speeches which reflect the development, variety, and drama of his political career. These new translations achieve new standards of accuracy.

In this, the first book-length discussion of Cicero's Catilinarians, D. H. Berry considers how the speeches should be interpreted as literature. Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time?