Cicero's Tongue: The Life of Rome's Greatest Orator and the End of the Republic - Hardcover
Cicero's Tongue: The Life of Rome's Greatest Orator and the End of the Republic - Hardcover
by Catharine Edwards (Author)
A new biography of Cicero, one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history.
When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off, and his tongue pierced with pins - a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a generation and made him many enemies. Rising from provincial obscurity to the highest elected office in Rome, Cicero became the greatest orator of his age, a figure who believed that speech itself could defend a republic.
Author Biography
CATHARINE EDWARDS is a professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London where she has been since 2006, and is one of the world's foremost experts on Roman History. A Fellow of the British Academy, she has published extensively on Roman cultural history, including academic books. She translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars for Oxford World's Classics, is a regular contributor for the BBC, and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.
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