Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

Now I badly need to read a comparative analysis of Caesar and Cicero - there is something amazing there.......more

The fundamental difficulty of writing a life of Cicero is that he's not the most interesting person in the story by a long shot. The trouble is that he has to share the stage with Caesar, who's bold, sexy -- every man's woman and every woman's man -- far-sighted enough to understand that the ship of......more

Few people can boast a career as remarkable as Cicero’s. Starting as an obscure lawyer and relying solely on his talents and abilities, he ended up in charge of the Roman Republic. And he wasn’t even a native. Anthony Everitt’s eponymous book tells the gripping story of how this happened. Cicero was......more

As a Classicist, I've always had a soft spot for old Cicero. He was the first author I read in the Latin language and my fondness for him continues to this day. That being said, Cicero the man certainly had his flaws, which Everitt exposes well in this book. Cicero's one true desire was to be loved a......more

Herisova trilogija o Ciceronu natera te da se zaljubiš u ovog filhelena, koji je u jednom turbulentnom razdoblju (moglo bi se doduše diskutovati o mišljenju da li je 6 godina u vreme pada Republike najturbulentniji period ljudske istorije nakon 6 godina 2. svetskog rata) pokušao da sačuva svoju veru......more