About Cicero
Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC), the supreme stylist of Latin prose and a defender of the Roman Republic against the rise of one-man rule. Cicero transmitted Greek philosophy to the Latin West and was murdered for opposing Mark Antony; his political and ethical writings remained central to European education for nearly two thousand years.
Books by Cicero
On Duties
The most influential work of practical ethics ever written, and the bridge between Greek philosophy and the Western political tradition. Cicero argues that what is honourable and what is truly useful can never really co…
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Cicero's great work of political philosophy and the most influential Roman statement of republican government and natural law. Modeled on Plato but rooted in Roman experience, it defends the mixed constitution as the mo…
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