Plutarch's Life of Cicero

This page contains some lists of useful information for those interested in working on a project involving Plutarch and/or his Life of Cicero. The first section provides a selective list of the books available in Austin College's Abell Library. The second consists of links to other Plutarch and Cicero resource pages on the Web. The third section allows the user to search for information on a variety of Internet search engines. If there are other resources you would like to see here, please email me with the information and URL (rcape@austinc.edu).

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Books in the Austin College Library
(with call numbers)

Books about Plutarch

Barrow, R. H., Plutarch and His Times. London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.
PA4382.B3 1967

Jones, C. P., Plutarch and Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
PA4382.J6

Russell, D. A., Plutarch. New York: Scribner, 1973.
PA4382.R8 1973B

Wardman, Alan, Plutarch's Lives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
PA4385.W3

Translation: Plutarch's Lives, with an English translation by Bernadotte Perrin.... (The Loeb classical library [Greek authors], 11 vols.) London: W. Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan co. [etc.] 1914-26.
PA3612.P7 1914

Books about Cicero (selective)

Boissier, Gaston. Cicero and His Friends: A Study of Roman Society in the Time of Caesar. Translated by Adnah David Jones. London: A.D. Innes and co., 1897.
DG260.A1B62

Dorey, T. A. (Editor). Cicero. London: Routledge & K. Paul ,1965.
DG260.C5D6 1965A

Habicht, Christian. Cicero the Politician. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
PA 6320.H33 1990

Lacey, W. K. Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978.
DG260.C5L25

Mitchell, Thomas N. Cicero: The Ascending Years. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979.
DG260.C53M57

Mitchell, Thomas N. Cicero: The Senior Statesman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
DG 260 .C53M58 1991

Rolfe, John C. Cicero and His Influence. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1963.
PA6320.R6 1963

Shackleton Bailey, D. R. Cicero. New York: Scribner, 1971.
DG260.C5B27 1972

Smith, Richard E. Cicero the Statesman. London: Cambridge U.P., 1966.
DG260.C5S6

Stockton, D. L. Cicero: A Political Biography. London, Oxford University Press, 1971.
DG260.C5S77

Translation: Cicero in twenty-eight volumes, translated by various hands. (The Loeb Classical Library [Latin authors]). London: W. Heinemann; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972-.
PA6156.C5 1972 V.10

Austin College students who wish to search Abell Library's on-line catalog, click here.



Other Web Resources

There are several good resources for classical texts, translations, and general information about the ancient world on the Internet. Linda Wright's (University of Washington) Online Classical Resources offers links to all the major information resources.

For specific information about Plutarch and Cicero, you may wish to visit these sites:

The rest of Plutarch's Lives on the University of Virginia Gopher server.

The Cicero Homepage, with a very useful (hint) chronology of Cicero's life, links to texts, and an extensive bibliography. Maintained by Professor Andrew Riggsby at the University of Texas, Austin.



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A searchable index of the tables of contents of over 150 journals in Classics and related fiends. This is the best on-line resource to find the most recent scholarship on Cicero and Plutarch.
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