Using Cicero's letters to his good friend Atticus, among other sources, Everitt recreates the fascinating world of political intrigue, sexual decadence and civil unrest of Republican Rome. Against ...

CICERO: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician. By Anthony Everitt. Random House, $25.95; 368 pp. MARCUS Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and orator, dressed in a toga, traveled in a litter ...

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 ...

Back in the early 'Aughts, when the wheels were starting to come off the economy; America's legions were fighting not one, but two foreign wars; our overseas prestige was on the wane, and our ...

The Romans knew at least this about power: It never comes free. Few men can teach that lesson as well as Cicero, a brilliant orator, lawyer and politician whose rise to power at the end of the Roman ...

Italian archaeologists recently discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse submerged underwater – and it may have belonged to Rome's greatest orator. The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park, located in ...