Cicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue ...
Continue Reading →Pro Marco Caelio is perhaps Cicero’s best-loved speech and has long been regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Roman oratory. Speaking in ...
Continue Reading →  The Philippics are a collection of 14 speeches delivered by Cicero against the character of Marc Antony. The speeches were given in front ...
Continue Reading →  Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and ...
Continue Reading →Cicero’s On the Commonwealth and On the Laws are his most important works of political philosophy. The present volume offers a scholarly reconstruction of the ...
Continue Reading → Cicero considered On Moral Ends to be his finest work. At the heart of it was how to live the best life. This was ...
Continue Reading →De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero’s last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of ...
Continue Reading →Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate ...
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