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Tag Archives: Cicero
The Cicero You Never Knew 2
Educated Romans knew Greek. It was the language of culture. You needed it to talk about art, literature, philosophy. The greatest ancient poet: Homer, quoted for a thousand years. Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic original of the 2nd c. … Continue reading
How They Killed Cicero
Who killed him? The three leaders [triumviri] Octavian, Lepidus, and Anthony ordered his execution. But it was Anthony who hated him most. This is how the Roman historian Appian tells it: “Cicero…was condemned along with his son, his brother, his … Continue reading
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