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Cicero - Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome (Hardcover, New)
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Cicero - Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome (Hardcover, New)
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Combining the latest scholarship with a highly readable style,
Kathryn Tempest looks at Cicero the politician and orator, and the
private man. On the back of his natural talent for oratory, Cicero
set out on the path to a glorious reputation - his earliest
speeches brought the name of Cicero out of the shadows and hurled
him into the spotlight. Cicero was the first 'new man' in thirty
years to reach the consulship; the fact that he managed to do so
without bribery or violence makes his success even more remarkable.
His year of office witnessed events of such a scale that he was
granted the extraordinary honour of the title 'pater patriae' - he
was the father of his fatherland. Following the Civil War, and with
renewed hopes for the restoration of the Roman Republic, Cicero
launched a fierce attack on Mark Antony by delivering a series of
speeches that cannot be matched for their vigour. It was these
speeches that would be the cause of Cicero's death, and his death
was to be as dramatic as his life. Kathryn Tempest's life of Cicero
and his times is as engaging as it is informative.
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