Page Text: Cicero's Career Up to 62 BCE
Cicero
BCE 106-80
The story of Cicero’s career is an epic tale, filled with courtroom dramas, corruption, conspiracy, greed, and Cicero’s own enduring hope for a better future.
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The Right and the Expedient
Cicero's Career After 62 BCE
Cicero
BCE 106-80
Following his consulship, Cicero did his best to salvage the battered Republic, eventually going head to head with the powerful young general Mark Antony.
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The Strange Roots of Love
The Poetry of Catullus
Catullus
BCE 84-54
Catullus (c. 85-54 BCE) is Rome’s most famous early poet. Departing from epic tradition, Catullus wrote a canon of short works that have been famous since antiquity.
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