AUTHORS NOTE

While literally hundreds of books, essays, manuscripts, etc., were studied before and during the writing of this book, especially in Rome and in Athens, only a few need to be mentioned here. The Holy Bible, particularly the Psalms of David and the prophesies of the Messias (because of Cicero’s interest in the matter), and Letters to-and-from Cicero and Atticus (Vatican Library, Archives, and translated by me on the spot), and the Orations of Cicero, particularly Pro Sex. Roscio, de Imperio Cn. Pompei, Pro Cluventio, In Catilinam, Pro Murena, Pro Caelio, available in full in Latin and excerpts in English, letters from Cicero to his family and friends (hundreds of sources, too many to be named), works of Cicero, himself, many named in the book and his Legibus and De Republica, Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Aristotle’s Politics, the plays of Aristophanes, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Cicero (Selected Works) translated by Michael Grant, The Essential Unity of All Religions, Bhagavan Das, Aristotle’s Ethics, Source Book in Ancient Philosophy by Charles M. Bakewell, the Catholic Encyclopedia, Phaedo of Plato, Cicero and the Roman Republic by F. R. Cowell, The World of Rome by Michael Grant, The Basic Works of Cicero, translated by Moses Hadas (particularly recommended), Plutarch’s Lives, Julius Caesar by W. Warde Fowler, Caesar by J. A. Froude, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by Mary M. Innes, Life of Cicero by William Forsyth, and The Romans by R. H. Barrow.