Learn why Cicero is considered one of the most important
individuals in all of Western culture! Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 BC) was a poet, philosopher, writer, scholar, barrister,
statesman, patriot, and the linguist who helped make Latin into a
universal language. His many influences in rhetoric, politics,
literature, and ideas are seen throughout Western civilization.
Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture explores the fascinating
man behind the eloquence and his monumental effect on language,
morality, and popularity of Western culture. One of the leading
authorities on popular culture, Dr. Marshall Fishwick discusses the
multifaceted man who may be, besides Jesus, the central figure in
all of Western civilization. The author recounts his own personal
quest of traveling the land and ancient cities of Italy, gleaning
insights from people he met along the way who have knowledge about
Cicero's life and times. However, Cicero, Classicism, and Popular
Culture is more than a simple search for the man and his
accomplishments, a man whose mere words changed the way people
think. This book shows in each of us the roots of our own ideas,
beliefs, and culture. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture
discusses: Cicero's rise to acclaim his affect on the language of
popular culture common traits Cicero shared with Thomas Jefferson
rhetoric, the art of oratory community two pivotal essays on
friendship and old age vision of his reputation the search for
peace Marshall McLuhan, Ciceronian Cicero's Rome Cicero's ancestral
home of Arpinum Julius Caesar, politics, and the influences of
Cicero the Roman republic and its downfall America as the new Rome
much more! Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is a startling,
entertaining examination of the man who made Western culture what
it is today. The book is insightful reading for educators,
students, or anyone interested in one of the major forces in
popular culture.
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