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The 71 pages that link to Cicero, each with the reason it gives.
HerodotusRelated: Cicero called Herodotus the father of history, a label that endured in later reception.
Roman SenateRelated: His speeches and letters document senatorial politics and its ideals.
RhetoricRelated: His works developed Roman accounts of the orator’s training and civic role.
Natural lawRelated: His writings transmitted a Roman formulation of natural law to later political thought.
RomeRelated: His career and speeches illuminate republican politics in Rome.
PolybiusRelated: Cicero praised Polybius as an authoritative historian.
HumanismRelated: Renaissance scholars treated his writing as a model of eloquence and civic learning.
CosmopolitanismRelated: His account of natural law connected human obligations to a wider community.
Latin literatureRelated: His writing established influential standards for rhetoric and prose style.
PompeyRelated: His shifting relationship with Pompey reveals divisions among Republican elites.
EpicurusCompared with: His objections preserve major Roman-era challenges to Epicurus’s doctrines.
PetrarchRelated: Petrarch’s discovery of Cicero’s letters helped renew interest in the private lives of classical authors.
RepublicRelated: His writings transmitted Roman ideas about public affairs and legitimate government.
Roman provincesRelated: His letters provide evidence about the duties and pressures of provincial command.
Roman taxationRelated: His speeches against Verres preserve a detailed critique of provincial exploitation.
Antikythera mechanismRelated: His texts were the only literary evidence for geared planetaria until the fragments were read.
Roman consulRelated: His consulship centered on suppressing the conspiracy associated with Catiline.
Hellenistic philosophyRelated: His writings made Hellenistic debates accessible to Roman political and literary culture.
Civic virtueRelated: His writings made service to the republic a prominent civic obligation.
Roman mythologyRelated: His arguments reveal Roman intellectual debates about myth, divination, and the nature of the gods.
EuhemerismRelated: In On the Nature of the Gods, he presents the reduction of gods to deified humans as one explanation of divinity.
Marcus Licinius CrassusRelated: Cicero’s speeches reveal the political conflicts in which Crassus operated.
AntithesisRelated: His speeches and rhetorical theory carried classical principles of balanced expression into Roman practice.
RhodesRelated: Cicero studied rhetoric on Rhodes, linking the island’s intellectual reputation to Roman elite education.
Livius AndronicusRelated: Cicero discusses Andronicus as an early figure in Roman literary history.
LucretiusRelated: Cicero’s correspondence provides early evidence for the poem’s circulation.
VercingetorixRelated: His references offer a Roman perspective beyond Caesar’s campaign narrative.
Diogenes LaërtiusCompared with: His accounts offer a separate Roman-era witness to Greek schools and doctrines.
Eleusinian MysteriesRelated: His testimony links initiation with moral instruction and hope for life after death.
OctavianRelated: Cicero’s speeches helped present the young Octavian as a counterweight to Antony.
Roman ForumRelated: His Forum speeches exemplify how rhetoric shaped Roman political life.
Roman literatureBroader topic: His speeches, letters, and philosophical works established enduring models of Latin prose.
SallustCompared with: His contemporary account of Catiline's conspiracy offers a contrasting perspective to Sallust's monograph.
ChrysippusRelated: His Latin accounts preserve and assess arguments from Chrysippus’s school.
Civic humanismRelated: His writings connected eloquence, moral character, and service to the republic.
Civic RepublicanismRelated: His writings transmitted Roman republican arguments about public duty and common interests.
Roman provincial governorRelated: His governorship of Cilicia and letters describe provincial administration firsthand.
Academic skepticismRelated: His dialogue Academica is a major source for Academic skeptical arguments.
Cato the YoungerRelated: Cicero’s speeches and letters reveal both admiration for Cato and disagreement over political strategy.
HistoriesRelated: He called Herodotus the father of history, a phrase that became a lasting description of his influence.
IsocratesRelated: Cicero praised Isocrates’ educational model and helped transmit his importance to Roman rhetoric.
LucullusRelated: Cicero’s speeches and letters reflect the political world in which Lucullus sought influence.
Marcus Junius BrutusRelated: His letters and political writings reveal contemporary reactions to Brutus and the conspirators.
Mos maiorumRelated: His political and philosophical works invoke ancestral custom amid the Republic’s crises.
OratoryRelated: His practice and theory became lasting models for public speaking.
PosidoniusRelated: Cicero studied with Posidonius and later drew on his philosophy and historical accounts.
Commentarii de Bello GallicoCompared with: His correspondence provides a contemporary political perspective outside Caesar’s own narrative.
DemosthenesRelated: Cicero admired Demosthenes and invoked the Philippics when attacking Mark Antony.
EnniusRelated: Cicero quoted Ennius and treated his poetry as part of Rome’s cultural inheritance.
LawyerRelated: His career exemplifies advocacy in the Roman legal and political world.