Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 bce), statesman, orator, and writer, is our main source for the culture and history of the Roman Republic in its last generation, and fundamental to the moral and political thought of the Latin Fathers (Augustine, Jerome, Lactantius), of the humanist renaissance of Italy, and of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in Europe and America. 
 
 
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political history; 
Roman history

Cicero's writings are crucial for understanding the Roman Republic's last generation and the influence of his moral and political thought on the Latin Fathers, renaissance, and Enlightenment.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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