Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. But I’m most interested in how ...

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 ...

The Roman Republic fell, in part, because too few were willing to defend its battered norms against the lure of strongmen. We know how that story ended. Cicero himself was executed for standing ...

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 ...

George Nash’s Trailblazing Work on American Conservatism Turns 50 Keynesianism at 90 ‘Murder in the Skies’ Every Day’s a Full Moon at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum This essay series ...

Best-selling author Robert Harris recommends works by Julius Caesar, Tom Holland, and more: Cicero: Select Letters (Cambridge, $40). Arguably not until 1933 to 1945 was there a more seismic event in ...

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 ...