Cicero - An evening with Philip Bujak

Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the  late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against  populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of  civil war and unrest. During his term as consul (63 BCE), his decisive  actions thwarted a plot to overthrow the Senate, controversially having  the ringleaders executed.  He outlived Caesar but then mounted a  virulent opposition to Mark Antony, which led to Cicero's proscription  and execution as an enemy of the state. The legacy of his speeches, letters and treatises on politics, law,  oratory and other subjects endured, however, and was massively  influential on Latin literature and, when rediscovered in the Middle  Ages, formed one of the cornerstones of the Renaissance. The period in which Cicero flourished and died was one in which  democracy was under attack from radical demagoguery and Philip Kay-Bujak  believes his career holds important…