As we've noted many times in these pages, one common way in which people attempt to demonstrate the aptness of a particular social or political viewpoint is to put its expression into the mouth of a ...

For better than two millennia, politicians have invoked classical Greek and Roman literature to construct, defend, and challenge ideologies of power. On Thursday, November 20, Senator Ted Cruz ...

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My high school Latin teacher, Mr. McPherson, passed away recently, before his time. Joe’s death brought back memories of our class more than forty years ago translating Cicero, Ovid, Catullus and ...

This is one of the stories that made me fall in love with Cicero. In December 45BC, during the three-day public holiday called the Saturnalia, the famous orator was at his house in Puteoli, on the ...

A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919) depicts Cicero speaking in the Roman Senate. (Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons) On April 8, 52 BCE, Cicero rose to give a speech in the Roman Forum ...

An ancient holiday villa where the assassinated Roman politician Cicero spent his final days is on the verge of collapse and needs urgent public intervention to save it, local politicians have warned.