28 April 2022 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
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Bust of Cicero, Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini, Rome © Freud/cc-by-sa-3.0
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and
Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold
optimate principles during
the political crises that led to the establishment of the
Roman Empire.
His extensive writings include treatises on
rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome’s greatest
orators and
prose stylists. He came from a wealthy
municipal family of the
Roman equestrian order, and served as
consul in 63 BC.
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