• Preface


• I. Reading the Letters from the Outside In


• 1. Constraints and Biases in Roman Letter-Writing


• 2. The Editing of the Collection


• 3. Frames of the Letter


• II. Epistolary Preoccupations


• 4. The Letters and Literature


• 5. Giving and Getting Advice by Letter


• 6. Letter-Writing and Leadership


• Afterword: The Collection in Hindsight


• Appendix 1: Quantifying the Letter Corpus


• Appendix 2: Contemporary Works Mentioned in the Letters


• Bibliography of Titles Cited

Peter White is Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. His previous books include Promised Verse, winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association.

Cicero in Letters analyzes letter-writing habits and political preoccupations that define the correspondence between Cicero and his contemporaries during a period of crisis at the end of the Roman Republic.