Хронологія
Кожен опрацьований твір, рік за роком, поряд із подіями життя автора. Низки послідовних листів згорнуто в групи, щоб ти міг їх проминути або розгорнути й прочитати.
86 до н. е.
Age 20. Studying in Rome under Q. Mucius Scaevola the Augur, the great jurist of the age, and reading philosophy under the Epicurean Phaedrus and the Stoic Diodotus. Marius dies in January at his seventh consulship; the civil war between the Marians and the absent Sulla grinds on in Italy. Cicero's youthful verse translation of Aratus belongs somewhere in this period.
філос. Aratea 86 BC56 до н. е.
Age 50. Conference of Luca in April renews the Triumvirate and forces Cicero, leaned on by Pompey, to recant his opposition to Caesar's laws — what he later calls his "palinode." Pro Sestio defends his recall; Pro Caelio, the most theatrical of the speeches, demolishes Clodia.
філос. Marius втрачено 56 BC54 до н. е.
Age 52. De Re Publica underway, the Scipionic dialogue on the ideal constitution. Caesar campaigns in Britain; Cicero's brother Quintus serves on Caesar's staff in Gaul and writes lively letters home.
філос. De Temporibus Suis втрачено 54 BCлисти 1 лист
46 до н. е.
Age 60. Caesar formally pardons him and the philosophical writing begins in earnest: Brutus (a history of Roman oratory), Orator, Paradoxa Stoicorum. Pro Marcello and Pro Ligario before Caesar. Divorces Terentia after thirty years; briefly marries his young ward Publilia.
листи 1 лист
45 до н. е.
Age 61. Tullia, his daughter, dies in February after childbirth. The grief is annihilating, and drives an outpouring of philosophy unmatched in Roman literature: Consolatio (a self-consolation, now lost), Hortensius (the protreptic that would convert Augustine, now lost), Academica, De Finibus, Tusculanae Disputationes, De Natura Deorum.
філос. Consolatio втрачено March 45 BCлисти 2 листів Jun
листи 1 лист Aug
44 до н. е.
Age 62. Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March; Cicero is in the senate that day but not in the plot. After a few months of uncertainty and a planned trip to Greece that he aborts, the Philippics against Antony begin in September, with the speech later called Philippic 2 (never delivered) the most savage. De Officiis written for his son.
філос. De Gloria втрачено 44 BC