Cicero was the greatest orator in Roman history, born into the upper echelons of Roman society at a time when the Senate (the ‘S' in ‘SPQR') was still the final word in how that great civilisation ...

Cicero's career was both marked and made by the constitutional crises that characterized the last decades of the Roman republic. In several of his speeches from the period, he characterized the ...

The author is an emeritus professor of history at Konkuk University. In terms of talent alone, Cicero (106 BC–43 BC) was the most outstanding figure in ancient Roman history. He was known to be ...