Encyclopedia - Cicero: Encyclopedia - Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (standard English pronunciation [ˈsɪsərəʊ]; Classical Latin pronunciation [ˈkikero]) (January 3, 106 BC – D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brutus Cicero: Encyclopedia - Brutus Cicero
Cicero's Brutus (full title: Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators or Brutus, or the History of Eloquence) is a history of Roman o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero - Biography
Cicero was born in Arpinum and killed at Formia while fleeing from political enemies. "It is no exaggeration", wrote Taylor (as cited in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero And The Roman Republic: Encyclopedia - Cicero And The Roman Republic
The latter half of the first century BCE witnessed the close of the Republican era. Cicero was idealistic regarding his aspirations for t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Re Publica: Encyclopedia - De Re Publica
De re publica is a dialogue by Cicero, written in six books between 54 and 51 BC. It is written in the format of a Socratic dialogue; tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catiline Orations: Encyclopedia - Catiline Orations
In 63 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), orator, statesman and patriot, attained the rank of consul and in that capacity exposed to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arpinum: Encyclopedia - Arpinum
Arpinum was an ancient Roman town in southern Latium, now Arpino. It holds the dual honor of being the birth place of both Marius (157 BC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commentariolum Petitionis: Encyclopedia - Commentariolum Petitionis
Commentariolum Petitionis was written by Cicero's brother Quintus as a guide to speaking and oratory. Other related archivesCicero, Quin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Divinatione: Encyclopedia - De Divinatione
Cicero's De Divinatione (Latin, "Concerning Divination") is a philosophical treatise in two books written in 45 BC . It takes the form of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Convivio: Encyclopedia - Convivio
Convivio is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly in a ten year period between 1294 and 1307. It contains details of the author's gro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zeno Of Sidon: Encyclopedia - Zeno Of Sidon
Zeno of Sidon, Epicurean philosopher of the 1st century BC and contemporary of Cicero. In the De Natura Deorum (1. 34), Cicero states tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clodius Aesopus: Encyclopedia - Clodius Aesopus
Clodius Aesopus, the Roman tragedian, flourished during the time of Cicero, but the dates of his birth and death are not known. The name ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aulus Caecina: Encyclopedia - Aulus Caecina
Aulus Caecina, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero (69 BC) in a speech still extant, took the side of Pompey in the civil war...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Annals: Encyclopedia - Annals
Annals (Latin Annales, from annus, a year) are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Officiis: Encyclopedia - De Officiis
De Officiis (On Duties or On Obligations) is an essay by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, where Cicero explains his view o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Legibus: Encyclopedia - De Legibus
In the first century B.C. the conservative senator Cicero wrote a work bearing the same name as Plato’s famous dialogue, The Laws. In h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 43 Bc: Encyclopedia - 43 Bc
43 BC - Events. April 14 - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aether Mythology: Encyclopedia - Aether Mythology
Aether ("upper air"), in Greek mythology, was the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven. He is the pure, upper air that th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 75 Bc: Encyclopedia - 75 Bc
75 BC - Events. In Rome, the tribune Quintus Opimius speaks out against Sullan restrictions on the tribunate, in orations noted for sa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 70 Bc: Encyclopedia - 70 Bc
70 BC - Events. August - In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseille before the trial is ove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 58 Bc: Encyclopedia - 58 Bc
58 BC - Events. Roman Republic Consuls: Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and Aulus Gabinius Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman tribune, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleitarchus: Encyclopedia - Cleitarchus
Cleitarchus, one of the historians of Alexander the Great, son of Demon, also an historian, was possibly a native of Egypt, or at least s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 46 Bc: Encyclopedia - 46 Bc
46 BC - Events. February 6 – Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio and J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 52 Bc: Encyclopedia - 52 Bc
52 BC - Events. Roman Republic Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Pompey marries Cornelia Met...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cupid: Encyclopedia - Cupid
In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of erotic love. He is equated with the Greek God Eros and one of his Latin names is Eros. He is also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 63 Bc: Encyclopedia - 63 Bc
63 BC - Events. Roman conquest of Judea; the province of Iudaea is formed. King Judah Aristobulus II removed from power, while his bro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 76 Bc: Encyclopedia - 76 Bc
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 3...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ambiorix: Encyclopedia - Ambiorix
Ambiorix was prince of Eburones, a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica). Although Julius Caesar had freed him from paying ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquino: Encyclopedia - Aquino
Aquino is a small town episcopal see in the south-central Italian province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region, 56 miles northwest by rail ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1761 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1761 In Literature
See also: 1760 in literature, other events of 1761, 1762 in literature, list of years in literature. 1761 in literature - New books. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1455: Encyclopedia - 1455
1455 - Year in topics. 1455 in art 1455 - Births. February 2 - King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (died 1513) March 3 - King...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uranus Mythology: Encyclopedia - Uranus Mythology
Uranus is the Latinized form of Ouranos, Greek name of the sky. In Greek mythology Uranus is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Midway Airport: Encyclopedia - Midway Airport
This an article about the airport in Chicago. For the airport in British Columbia, Canada see Midway Airport Chicago Midway Internationa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero Illinois: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero Illinois - Geography
Cicero is located at 41°50'43" North, 87°45'36" West (41.845232, -87.759933)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero Indiana: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero Indiana - Geography
Cicero is located at 40°7'39" North, 86°1'6" West (40.127568, -86.018375)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero And The Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero And The Roman Republic - Cicero's Vision
It is important to remember that Cicero’s vision for the Republic did not simply translate to the maintenance of the status quo. Furthe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero And The Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero And The Roman Republic - The Effects Of The Civil War And Cicero
Cicero was a shrewd politician and recognised that the end of the Republic was near certain. He stated that “the Republic, the Senate, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Institutio Oratoria
Quintilian - Introduction. As mentioned above, Quintilian wrote his book during the last years of the reign of Emperor Domitian. In the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher, who helped popularize Greek philosophy in Roman thought a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero And The Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero And The Roman Republic - Rome's Political Structure And Its Effects
Cicero's links with the Equestrian class, combined with his status as a novos homo meant that he was isolated from the optimates. Thus, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Works Cited
Works Cited Bonner, Stanley F. Education in Ancient Rome: From the elder Cato to the younger Pliny. London: Methuen & Company, Ltd., ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Re Publica: Encyclopedia Ii - De Re Publica - What's In A Title
While already the Latin version of the title of this work is given in two versions (De re publica and De republica), depending on source,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero And The Roman Republic: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero And The Roman Republic - Problems In Rome
Cicero and the Roman Republic - Political Instability. Increasing instability and violence marked the final years of the Republic. This...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Re Publica: Encyclopedia Ii - De Re Publica - Setting And Dramatis Personæ
De re publica - Setting. The dialogue is portrayed as taking place in Scipio's estate, during three consecutive days. Each day is descr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero New York - Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 27,982 people, 10,538 households, and 7,692 families residing in the town. The population density is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Re Publica: Encyclopedia Ii - De Re Publica - Content
Large parts of the text are missing: especially from the 4th and the 5th book only minor fragments survived. All other books have at leas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Quintilian's Works
The only extant work of Quintilian is his masterwork, a twelve-volume textbook on rhetoric entitled Institutio Oratoria. It is important ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Quintilian's Life
Quintilian was born ca. 35 C.E. in Calagurrius (now Calahorra) in Spain. His father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rheto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quintilian: Encyclopedia Ii - Quintilian - Influence Of Quintilian
The influence of Quintilian’s masterwork, Institutio Oratoria, can be felt in several areas. First of all, there is his criticism of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Steven Saylor: Encyclopedia Ii - Steven Saylor - Bibliography
Steven Saylor - Books with Gordianus. Roman Blood (1991), in which Gordianus is hired by the great orator and advocate Cicero in 80 BC...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Officiis: Encyclopedia Ii - De Officiis - Origin
It was written in the year 44 BC, Cicero's last year alive, when he was 62 years old. Cicero was at this time still active in politics, t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tullia: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tullia
Tullia (Latin). A daughter of Cicero, in whose tomb, as claimed by several alchemists, was found burning a perpetual lamp, placed ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Philosophy - Later Classical Philosophers
Cicero Zeno of Citium Epictetus Epicurus and Lucretius Sextus Empiricus ... See also:Greek philosophy, Greek philosophy - Pre-Socratic ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dii Minores: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Dii Minores
Dii Minores (Latin). The inferior or "reflected group of the twelve gods " or Dii Majores, described by Cicero in his De Nat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blue Line Chicago Transit Authority: Encyclopedia Ii - Blue Line Chicago Transit Authority - 54th/cermak Branch
The 54th/Cermak or Douglas Branch terminal is in Cicero at 54th Avenue and Cermak Road (5400 west - 2200 south). The line runs east on st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Literature - Classical Latin
Latin literature - Golden Age. Poetry Lucretius : On the Nature of Things Catullus Virgil : Aeneid Horace Ovid : Metamo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goodfellas: Encyclopedia Ii - Goodfellas - Themes
Goodfellas is widely regarded as the first gangster film to show in detail how the "working class" mafia lived. Unlike The Godfather seri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cato The Younger: Encyclopedia Ii - Cato The Younger - After Cato
Cato is remembered as a Stoic philosopher and one of the most active paladins of the Republic. His high moral standards and incorruptible...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sodales: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Sodales
Sodales (Latin). The members of the Priest-colleges. (See Freund’s Latin Lexicon, iv., 448.) Cicero tells us also (De Senectute,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goodfellas: Encyclopedia Ii - Goodfellas - Story
In the film, Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, becomes involved in the mafia at a young age: as he says in the film, "As far back as I ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Literary Works
Caesar was considered during his lifetime to be one of the finest orators and authors of prose in Rome—even Cicero spoke highly of Caes...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sodales: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sodales
Sodales (Latin) Members or fellows of a fraternity, society, or recognized corporation, hence members of a mystic, secret, or occult f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julius Caesar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julius Caesar - Caesar's Literary Works
Caesar was considered during his lifetime to be one of the finest orators and authors of prose in Rome—even Cicero spoke highly of Caes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novus Homo: Encyclopedia Ii - Novus Homo - History
According to tradition, both Senate membership and the consulship were restricted to patricians. When plebeians gained the right to this ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orange Line Chicago Transit Authority: Encyclopedia Ii - Orange Line Chicago Transit Authority - History
The Orange (Midway) Line was opened on October 31, 1993, and was the first all-new rapid transit service in Chicago since the Dan Ryan Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Vulgari Eloquentia: Encyclopedia Ii - De Vulgari Eloquentia - Models
Dante takes inspiration from rhetoric essays in Latin, Occitan and Italian, and from philosophical readings. The main classic rhetoric te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Herodotus: Encyclopedia Ii - Herodotus - Opinions
Herodotus' invention earned him the title "The Father of History" and the word he used for his achievement, historie, which previously ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Literature - Golden Age
Poetry Lucretius : On the Nature of Things Catullus Virgil : Aeneid Horace Ovid : Metamorphoses Tibullus Propertius Pros...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lorem Ipsum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lorem Ipsum - English Translation
Cicero's original text: "Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cupid: Encyclopedia Ii - Cupid - Cupid's Lineage
There are differing stories about his parentage. Cicero provides three different lineages: son of Mercury (Hermes) and Diana (Artemis), s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Chicago Elevated Stations: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Chicago Elevated Stations - Blue Line
List of Chicago Elevated stations - Forest Park Branch. Medical Center Western Kedzie-Homan Pulaski Cicero Austin Oak Park Harlem Fore...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Liberty: Encyclopedia Ii - Liberty - Statues And Monuments
A temple was erected to the goddess Liberty on the Aventine Hill in Rome by the father of Tiberius Gracchus during the second Punic War. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Posidonius: Encyclopedia Ii - Posidonius - Reputation And Influence
In his own era, his writings on almost all the principal divisions of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned international figure througho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diocese: Encyclopedia Ii - Diocese - In The Roman Empire
The earliest use of 'diocese' as an administrative unit was in the Greek-speaking East. Three districts— Cibyra, Apamea and Synnada— ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Officiis: Encyclopedia Ii - De Officiis - Legacy
The legacy of this work is huge. Even though it was a pagan work, St. Ambrose in 390 declared it legitimate for the Church to use (along ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romulus And Remus: Encyclopedia Ii - Romulus And Remus - Sources
Romulus and Remus - Main Sources. around A.D. 100 Plutarch (Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Camillus) around A.D. 10 Livy (The Early...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Antony: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Antony - The Second Triumvirate
The death of Caesar had left an open space in Rome's politics. The Republic was dying, and yet another civil war was starting. It was the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hot Chocolate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hot Chocolate - Discography
Hot Chocolate - Albums. Cicero Park (1974) Hot Chocolate (#34) (November 1975) Man To Man (#32) (August 1976) Greatest Hits (#6) (Nove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organizational Communication: Encyclopedia Ii - Organizational Communication - History And Development Of The Discipline
The discipline of organizational communication traces its roots through the discipline of rhetoric back to the orators of Ancient Greece ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gallic Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Gallic Wars - Consolidation And Rebellions
Discontent among the subjugated Gauls prompted a major uprising in the winter of 54 BC/53 BC, when the Eburones of north-eastern Gaul ros...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Censor: Encyclopedia Ii - Censor - Lustrum
After the censors had performed their various duties and taken the census, the lustrum or solemn purification of the people followed. Whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Contract: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Contract - History
Contract theory is certainly not new; in Plato's Republic (c.360 BCE) Glaucon suggests that justice is a 'pact' among rational egoists, w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Philosophy - Origins
The introduction of the terms "philosopher" and "philosophy" has been ascribed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras (see Diogenes Laertius: "D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bugs Moran: Encyclopedia Ii - Bugs Moran - Battling Al Capone
Weiss and Moran's bootlegging operations remained the only serious challenge to Al Capone's empire in Chicago and Moran and Capone became...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Praetor: Encyclopedia Ii - Praetor - Praetorship
The Praetorship was originally a kind of third consulship, and the chief functions of the praetor were a portion of the functions of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pliny The Elder: Encyclopedia Ii - Pliny The Elder - Literature
At the conclusion of his literary labours, as the only Roman who had ever taken for his theme the whole realm of nature, he prays for the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syria: Encyclopedia Ii - Syria - Culture
Ancient Syria's cultural and artistic achievements and contributions are many. Archaeologists have discovered extensive writings and evid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syria: Encyclopedia Ii - Syria - Culture
Ancient Syria's cultural and artistic achievements and contributions are many. Archaeologists have discovered extensive writings and evid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oak Park Illinois: Encyclopedia Ii - Oak Park Illinois - Geography
Oak Park is located at 41°53'10" North, 87°47'25" West (41.885981, -87.790332)GR1. It is immediately west of Chicago; the boundary betw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Creationism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Creationism - Greek And Roman Times
c. 45 BC – Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) made a teleological argument, anticipating the watchmaker analogy, in De natura deorum, ii. 34 Wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Origin
Both Thoth and Hermes were gods of writing and of magic in their respective cultures. Thus the Greek god of interpretive communication wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleological Argument - History
Cicero made one of the earliest teleological arguments. He was writing from the cultural background of the Roman religion. In Roman mytho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hannibal: Encyclopedia Ii - Hannibal - Anecdotes
Cicero offers a story of Hannibal while at the court of Antiochus III. Hannibal attended a lecture by a certain Phormio, a philosopher, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irreducible Complexity: Encyclopedia Ii - Irreducible Complexity - Forerunners
The argument from irreducible complexity is a descendant of the teleological argument for God (the argument from design or argument from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Astrology - Historical Opponents Of Astrology
Lastly, we may mention a few distinguished men who ran counter to their age in denying stellar influences. Aristarchus of Samos, Martianu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copia Latin: Encyclopedia Ii - Copia Latin - Copia And Morality
Copia has moral dimensions: Rhetors decide (tacitly or explicitly) whether or not to conceal education with non-chalance; Copia is a proc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pierre Simon Fournier: Encyclopedia Ii - Pierre Simon Fournier - Point Taken
Three-hundred-and-twenty years into the history of printing, there was no standard in type sizes. This was not to say that the issue was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irreducible Complexity: Encyclopedia Ii - Irreducible Complexity - Forerunners
The argument from irreducible complexity is a descendant of the teleological argument for God (the argument from design or argument from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Illinois: Encyclopedia Ii - Illinois - Important Cities And Towns
Population over 1,000,000: Chicago Population 100,000 to 1,000,000: Aurora Joliet Naperville Peoria Rockford Springfield (state capita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicero: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicero - Works
Cicero - Speeches. Of his speeches, eighty-eight were recorded, but only fifty-eight survive. (Some of the items below are more than on...   » Read the article