Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, advocate, orator, and philosopher who created the first substantial body of philosophical writing in Latin. His speeches and letters record the crises of the late Republic, while his dialogues connect Greek debates with Roman ethics, law, and civic life. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age joins accessible reflections on loyalty, virtue, aging, and death. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Select Orations of Cicero show how legal and political argument becomes public performance. The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends offers a less formal view of judgment and personal obligation. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age is the inviting philosophical entrance. Readers interested in rhetoric can move to Select Orations of Cicero; the letters then reveal how a public voice changes in private correspondence during upheaval.