Cicero

Examples of Cicero in the following topics:

• Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

  • Culture flourished during the Roman Republic with the emergence of great authors such as Cicero and Lucretius and the development of Roman relief and portraiture sculpture.
  • Cicero has traditionally been considered the master of Latin prose.
  • Cicero's many works can be divided into four groups: (1) letters, (2) rhetorical treatises, (3) philosophical works, and (4) orations.
  • Cicero's works on oratory are our most valuable Latin sources for ancient theories on education and rhetoric.
  • A mid-first century CE bust of Cicero in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

• Petrarch

  • Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance.
  • In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously known to have existed, the collection ad Atticum.

• Education and Humanism

  • Most of Feltre's ideas were based on those of previous classical authors, such as Cicero and Quintilian.

• Renaissance Writers

  • One of Bruni's most famous works is New Cicero, a biography of the Roman statesman Cicero.

• Julius Caesar

  • Their attempts to amass power through populist tactics were opposed by the conservative ruling class within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero.

• Founding of the Roman Empire

  • Despite earlier alliances with Mark Antony, Julius Caesar's Master of the Horse and right hand man, Octavian eventually allied himself with the senate, and notably, Cicero.