This volume provides a critical edition of the correspondence between Marcus Tullius Cicero and his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus, specifically covering the period of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. Dr. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, a renowned scholar of Latin literature, presents a revised text that builds upon the established Oxford Classical Texts tradition. The work serves as a scholarly resource for understanding the political turmoil of the late Roman Republic through the private, unfiltered observations of one of its most prominent statesmen.

Scholars and classicists widely regard the Shackleton Bailey edition as the standard reference for the study of Cicero's correspondence. Readers frequently note the high level of academic density and the precision of the textual analysis provided in this volume.