Cicero
Marcus Tulius Cicero
ancient world
graeco-roman
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.— Wikipedia
Works
De Inventione
On Invention
Orationes iudiciales
Legal Orations
In Verrem
Against Verres (Verrines)
Commentariolum Petitionis
Handbook on Electioneering
Orationes in Catilinam
Catilinarian Orations
De Oratore
On the Orator
De Partitione Oratoria
On the Division of Speeches
De Re Publica
Republic (On the Commonweatlh)
Somnium Scipionis
Dream of Scipio
De claris oratoribus
Brutus
De Optimo Genere Oratorum
On the Best Kind of Orators
Orator
Orator
Paradoxa Stoicorum
Stoic Paradoxes
Academica
Academics
Cato Maior de Senectute
Cato the Elder, on Old Age
De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
On the Ends of Good and Evil
De Natura Deorum
On the Nature of the Gods
Tusculanae Disputationes
Tusculan Disputations
De Amicitia
On Friendship
De Divinatione
On Divination
De Fato
On Fate
De Officiis
On Duties
Topica
Topics
De Legibus
On the Laws
Epistulae ad Atticum
Letters to Atticus
Epistulae ad Brutum
Letters to Brutus
Epistulae ad Familiares
Letters to Friends
Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem
Letters to Brother Quintus
Philippicae
Philipics
Epistulae Variae et Fragmenta
Miscellaneous Letter and Fragments