Cicero’s letters

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collection of letters epistolary corpus primary historical source

Cicero’s letters are a collection of personal and political correspondence by the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, offering a vivid primary source on late Republican Roman history, culture, and rhetoric.

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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form	Occurrences
Cicero’s correspondence	2
Cicero's correspondence	1
Cicero's letters	1
Cicero’s letters to Atticus	1
letters of Cicero	1
letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	collection of letters ⓘ epistolary corpus ⓘ primary historical source ⓘ
approximateEndYear	43 BCE ⓘ
approximateStartYear	68 BCE ⓘ
author	Marcus Tullius Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ
containsSubcollection	Epistulae ad Atticum NERFINISHED ⓘ Epistulae ad Brutum NERFINISHED ⓘ Epistulae ad Familiares NERFINISHED ⓘ Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	personal correspondence ⓘ political correspondence ⓘ
historicalValue	first‑hand account of late Republican events ⓘ
influenced	Renaissance humanists NERFINISHED ⓘ early modern letter‑writing practices ⓘ
language	Latin ⓘ
literaryValue	model of Latin epistolary style ⓘ
mainTopic	Cicero’s career ⓘ Cicero’s exile ⓘ Civil War between Caesar and Pompey NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman culture ⓘ Roman law ⓘ Roman politics ⓘ Roman rhetoric ⓘ Roman social life ⓘ fall of the Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
modernAvailability	critical editions ⓘ translations into modern languages ⓘ
periodDescribed	late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
preservation	medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ
providesInformationOn	Cicero’s philosophical interests ⓘ daily life of Roman elite ⓘ elite friendship in Rome ⓘ governorship of provinces ⓘ judicial proceedings ⓘ patronage networks ⓘ senatorial politics ⓘ
significantPersonAddressed	Atticus NERFINISHED ⓘ Brutus NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Caelius Rufus NERFINISHED ⓘ Quintus Tullius Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ various Roman magistrates ⓘ
timeOfComposition	1st century BCE ⓘ
usedAsSourceBy	ancient historians of the late Republic ⓘ modern historians of Roman history ⓘ scholars of Latin literature ⓘ scholars of Roman rhetoric ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Caecilia Attica → associatedWith → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cicero’s correspondence

Terentia → associatedWith → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cicero's correspondence

Terentia → describedIn → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cicero's letters

Tullia Ciceronis → historicalSource → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cicero’s correspondence

Publilia → mentionedIn → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tullia Ciceronis → mentionedIn → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: letters of Cicero

Pompeia → source → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

Caecilia Attica → sourceMention → Cicero’s letters ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cicero’s letters to Atticus

Vita di Cicerone → usesSource → Cicero’s letters ⓘ