Sunday, September 1, 2019
The Most Interesting Character
The most interesting character from these chapters is Marcus Tullius Cicero. I found him to be the most interesting because of his political skill, his lack of a “ancestral records”, and his humble beginnings. It is also incredibly fascinating how historians call this time period “the age of Cicero”. He schemed like the rest of the politicians of this time, but his scheming was a little more interesting since it involved generations as well as alliance changes that weren’t necessarily in his favor. I also find him the most interesting because of how much he wrote about the Roman Republic, giving us information about the era that we wouldn’t have otherwise.
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In terms of his long-lasting effect on history, Cicero is probably less important than Pompey, Caesar, or Octavian, although he was an influential politician and was courted by Caesar in particular (Cicero complains in his letters that Pompey is not paying enough attention to him). But because Cicero was such a gifted and, what's more, prolific writer, most of what we know about the time period we know through his writings, and that's really why anyone would call this time the "Age of Cicero."
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