Cicero In and On Political Crises
- Date & time
- Speaker
- Professor Melissa LaneGresham Professor of Rhetoric; Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University
- Location
- Barnard's Inn Hall
- Organisation
- Gresham College
Topics
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About this talk
An enthusiast of the Roman mixed constitution, Cicero was elected consul and in that role dramatically curbed the tyrannical ambitions of Catiline. He would later become fatally embroiled in the shifting politics of later generations of ambitious strongmen, while also writing his own theories of constitutional change. This lecture explores Cicero's life and death as a way to articulate the crises of the late republic.
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