Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late RepublicCicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political