On April 8, 52 BCE, Cicero rose to give a speech in the Roman Forum defending Titus Annius Milo, a prominent politician accused of murdering his political rival, Publius Clodius Pulcher. I have turned ...

Using Cicero's letters to his good friend Atticus, among other sources, Everitt recreates the fascinating world of political intrigue, sexual decadence and civil unrest of Republican Rome. Against ...

Back in the early 'Aughts, when the wheels were starting to come off the economy; America's legions were fighting not one, but two foreign wars; our overseas prestige was on the wane, and our ...

CICERO: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician. By Anthony Everitt. Random House, $25.95; 368 pp. MARCUS Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and orator, dressed in a toga, traveled in a litter ...

On this day more than 2000 years ago, one of the most powerful men in the world was brutally beheaded in a macabre public display. First his throat was slit, then it took three blows to cut off his ...

The Romans knew at least this about power: It never comes free. Few men can teach that lesson as well as Cicero, a brilliant orator, lawyer and politician whose rise to power at the end of the Roman ...

Italian archaeologists recently discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse submerged underwater – and it may have belonged to Rome's greatest orator. The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park, located in ...