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Accessible through his legendary speeches and a collection of letters
to his friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life in the pages of this biography.
Cicero came of age during Spartacus' famous revolt of the gladiators
and presided over Roman law and politics for almost half a century.
He foiled the Cataline conspiracy, advised Pompey — the general
who brought the Middle East under Roman rule — and fought to mobilize
the Senate against Caesar. He witnessed the conquest of Gaul, the civil
war that followed and Caesar's dictatorship and assassination. Cicero
was a defender of freedom and a model, later, to French and American
revolutionaries who saw themselves as following in his footsteps in
the resistance to tyranny.
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