TY - BOOK AU - Cicero,Marcus Tullius AU - Jones,E. TI - Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker AV - PA PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Oratory -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_(Cicero); Release date is 2006-01-01; Produced by Anne Soulard, Ted Garvin, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished…" by Cicero is a dialogue written in 46 BC. Cast as a conversation between Cicero, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Titus Pomponius Atticus, this work surveys the great Roman orators throughout history. Written during Rome's tumultuous civil war period, Cicero traces eloquence from its Greek origins through generations of Roman speakers, defending his own oratorical style while lamenting the decline of public speaking in an age when great orators have fled or fallen silent. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9776 ER -