Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of himself as statesman and orator. He memorialized his spiritual and oratorical self by means of a very solid body of texts. Educationalists and schoolteachers in antiquity relied on Cicero's oratory to supervise the growth of the young into intellectual maturity. By reconstructing the main phases of textual transmission, from the first authorial dissemination of the speeches to the medieval manuscripts, and by re-examining the abundant evidence on Ciceronian scholarship from the first to the sixth century CE, Cicero and Roman Education traces the history of the exegetical tradition on Cicero's oratory and re-assesses the 'didactic' function of the speeches, whose preservation was largely determined by pedagogical factors.

公元前52年，罗马共和国正值鼎盛时期，执政官庞贝（里克•沃登 Rick Warden 饰）坐守都城，盟友凯撒（塞伦•希德 Ciarán Hinds 饰）征战高卢。期间，第13军团屡立战功，主将乌里纳斯（凯文•马克德 Kevin McKidd 饰）有勇有谋，手下波罗（雷•史蒂文森 Ray Stevenson 饰）虽嗜酒如命，却忠肝义胆。适逢凯撒得胜，屋大维遵母命赴前线慰问，不想途中遭劫，被经过的乌里纳斯和波罗救下。13军团凯旋，乌里纳斯与阔别8年的妻子相见，却各怀心事。波罗偶然间发现了乌里纳斯妻子红杏出墙的事实，为了保护长官的名誉，波罗在屋大维的帮助下，逼出了真相。凯撒准备独揽大权，一直等待时机。庞贝看出了他的野心，与元老院众人商议，其中以西塞罗为首的贵族势力，坚持认为凯撒为共和国叛徒，应诛杀之。而此时，凯撒的大将安东尼（杰姆斯•鲍弗 James Purefoy 饰）接任了护民官，与庞贝一伙展开周旋……

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political thought and the history of ideas. Written by a collaborative team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, the volume focuses the attention of the emerging discipline of East-West cross-cultural studies on an essential feature of the ancient Mediterranean and Chinese worlds: the emergence of 'empire' and the enduring influence of the 'imperial' order.