Dr. Tempest (Roehampton) presents Cicero as orator and politician in the context of the tumultuous final decades of the Roman Republic. This makes the book a very useful guide to the frequently ...

As Cicero might warn many a modern politician, your friends can be far more dangerous than your enemies. Not that Cicero has many friends left by time we meet him in Dictator (Knopf, 416 pp., *** ½ ...

Law Library Special Collections Rare Book Room Exhibits Epigraphs in Law Books Gordon’s work recounts instances in which government officials engaged in corrupt acts. One of the cases discussed is ...

John J. Miller is joined by Veronica Brooks of Hillsdale College to discuss Cicero's On the Ideal Orator. Continue reading this article with an NRPLUS subscription. Enjoy full access for 60% off.

In a prefatory note to his new novel, the last installment of a trilogy, Robert Harris describes the Roman statesman Cicero as having lived through “arguably — at least until the convulsions of ...