Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

The writings of Cicero are divided into four distinct groups, corresponding to the way that the Loeb Classical Library has grouped them. Although the Loeb groupings are no doubt done to facilitate publishing his works, this still appears to be the best way to divide up the large number of Ciceronian texts. Within each group the works are placed in alphabetical order. The years listed for each of Cicero's works come from the Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Oxford UP, 1993.

Texts

A. Rhetorical Treatises

TITLE	YEAR WRITTEN (MADE PUBLIC)
Brutus	46-44 B.C.
De Fato	44 B.C.
De Inventione	Before 81 B.C.
De Optimo Genere Oratorum	Perhaps 52 B.C. or 46-44 B.C.
De Oratore, Liber I-III	By end of 55 B.C.
De Partitione Oratoria	Late 50's B.C.
Orator	46-44 B.C.
Paradoxa Stoicorum
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Topica	46-44 B.C.

B. Orations

TITLE	YEAR WRITTEN (MADE PUBLIC)
De Domo Sua	Late 57 B.C.
De Haruspicum Responsis	Late 57 B.C.
De Imperio Cn. Pompei (or Pro Lege Manilia)	66 B.C.
De Lege Agraria Contra Rullum I-III	63 B.C.
De Provinciis Consularibus	56 B.C.
In Catilinam I-IV	8th November-5th December, 63 B.C.
In C. Verrem Actio I	70 B.C.
In C. Verrem Actio II Liber I-V	70 B.C. (printed but not spoken in court)
In Pisonem	56 B.C. (after De Provinciis Consularibus)
In Q. Caecilium	70 B.C. (prior to In C. Verrem Actio I)
In Vatinium	56 B.C.
Philippics I-XIV	2nd September 44 B.C. to mid-43 B.C.
Post Reditum in Senatu	Post-September 57 B.C.
Post Reditum ad Quirites	Post-September 57 B.C.
Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta	62 B.C.
Pro Balbo	56 B.C.
Pro Caecina	69 B.C.
Pro Caelio	56 B.C.
Pro A. Cluentio Habito	66 B.C.
Pro Cn. Plancio	54 B.C.
Pro L. Flacco	59 B.C.
Pro M. Fonteio	69 B.C.
Pro Q. Ligario	45 B.C.
Pro M. Marcello	46 B.C.
Pro T. Annio Milone	52 B.C.
Pro Murena	63 B.C.
Pro Quinctio	81 B.C.
Pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo	63 B.C.
Pro Rabirio Postumo	54 B.C.
Pro Rege Deiotaro	45 B.C.
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino	80 B.C.
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo	c. 77 B.C.
Pro Scauro	54 B.C.
Pro Sestio	56 B.C.
Pro Sulla	62 B.C.

C. Philosophical Treatises

TITLE	YEAR WRITTEN (MADE PUBLIC)
Academica I-II	45 B.C.
Cato Maior de Senectute	44 B.C.
De Divinatione	44 B.C.
De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum	45 B.C.
De Legibus	52-45 B.C.
De Natura Deorum	44 B.C.
De Officiis	Finished November 44 B.C.
De Re Publica	Late 50's B.C.
Laelius de Amicitia	Late 44 B.C.
Tusculanarum Disputationum Libri	45-44 B.C.

D. Letters

TITLE	YEAR WRITTEN (MADE PUBLIC)
Commentariolum Petitionis	Uncertainty exists as to true author: possibly written by Marcus' brother, Quintus
Epistula ad Octavianum	Now believed to not be by Cicero
Epistularum ad Atticum M. Tulli Ciceronis Libri Sedecim	68-43 B.C.
Epistulae ad Brutum	43 B.C.
Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem	Mostly 59-54 B.C.
Epistularum ad Familiares M. Tulli Ciceronis Libri Sedecim	Published posthumously by M. Tullius Tiro, freed ex-slave of Cicero