The Works of Cicero

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The Works of Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero work consisted of poetry, books, speeches, philosophy, and letters. The books that he wrote were based on philosophy and rhetoric. Cicero’s poetry was excellent. It was so good that other writers such as Virgil and Lucretius very well could have emulated off of some of his passages. Cicero gave many speeches from his judicial days to even after he was exiled. Some of his works consist of De Republica and De Legibus. Today, more than 800 letters written by Cicero are still around today. Some include the Epistulae ad Brutum and Epistulae ad Atticum. Life of Cicero On January 3rd, 106B.C., Marcus Tullis Cicero was born into the world. Cicero was born in the town of Arpinum, a town 80 miles south of east from Rome. Cicero went to Rome to learn. There, he would study literature. Amongst literature, he also studied poetry in Greek, Latin, and Rhetoric. It appears that most of his teachers were from Greek decent. With the intention of developing his knowledge of the law, he was commended to a well-known legal consultant who taught Cicero Greek Philosophy. Civil divergences were frequent in Arpinum. Cicero was well discerned by pleading in law courts. Then he decided to put his life in the law system on hold to go back and study philosophy and rhetoric more intensely. This time, Cicero was taught by the unsurpassed masters in Athens and in the Greek cities of Asia Minor. After he was through with his studies, Cicero returned to the law profession in Rome, where he was inducted into the Senate. He was called “Novus Homo”, which literally means “new man”. The term, “Novus Homo”, is used for a man who is first in his family to serve in the Roman Senate. It also means to be elected consul, which was Cicero’s position in 63B.C. Although many were happy for Cicero’s newly elected position, the Roman aristocracy had extreme dislike

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