Cicero and the Inside Story of the Late Republic

The aim of these lectures is to analyse and discuss the political life in Rome between 65 and 43 BC seen through the lens of Cicero’s letters. The lectures will be:

1. An Epistolary Culture.
2. From Hero to Zero (62-60 BC).
3. Caesar, Pompey and Crassus – and Cicero (60-58 BC).
4. From triumphant return to political submission (57-52 BC).
5. Governor in Cilicia (51-50 BC).
6. Civil War (49-48 BC).
7. Living without Libertas (47-44 BC).
8. The last stand (44-43 BC).

The lectures are intended for those in their third or fourth year of Greats doing Roman history I.5; for those doing the Special Subject on Cicero: Politics and Thought (Greats, CAAH and AMH), and for students of Ancient and Modern History and CAAH doing the Republican period.

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