Cicero

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Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman statesman
consul of the Roman Republic
human
lawyer
orator
philosopher
rhetorician
writer
ally Pompey the Great
surface form: Pompey

Roman Senate
surface form: Senate of the Roman Republic
birthDate 106 BC
birthPlace Arpinum
Roman Republic
causeOfDeath execution
child Cicero self-linksurface differs
surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor

Tullia Ciceronis
citizenship Roman Republic
cognomen Cicero self-link
correspondent Atticus
deathDate 43 BC
deathPlace Formiae
Italy
educatedAt Athens
Rhodes
Rome
era Late Roman Republic
familyName Tullius
fullName Cicero self-linksurface differs
surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
genre judicial oratory
letters
philosophical dialogue
political oratory
givenName Marcus
influenced Enlightenment political thought
Renaissance humanism
Augustine of Hippo
surface form: Saint Augustine

St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
influencedBy Aristotle
Epicureanism
Plato
Stoicism
killedBy agents of the Second Triumvirate
knownFor Latin prose style
defense of the Roman Republic
development of Roman rhetoric
influence on Western political philosophy
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
nomen Tullius
notableWork Cato the Younger
surface form: Brutus

De finibus bonorum et malorum
De legibus
De natura deorum
De officiis
De oratore
De re publica
In Catilinam (Catilinarian Orations)
De oratore
surface form: Orator

Philippicae
Tusculanae Disputationes
occupation author
lawyer
orator
philosopher
statesman
opponent Catiline
Mark Antony
philosophicalSchool Skepticism
surface form: Academic skepticism
positionHeld augur
consul of the Roman Republic
praetor
quaestor
praenomen Marcus
religion Roman polytheism
spouse Publilia
Terentia

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Cicero child Cicero self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor
Latin classicalAuthors Cicero
Cicero cognomen Cicero self-link
Roman aediles declinedBy Cicero
Lactantius describedAs Cicero
this entity surface form: Christian Cicero
Cicero fullName Cicero self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus hasNotableBearers Cicero
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Demosthenes influenced Cicero
Isocrates influenced Cicero
Lucretius influenced Cicero
Rhetoric influenced Cicero
Lactantius influencedBy Cicero
Campus Martius mentionedBy Cicero
Rostra mentionedBy Cicero
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
optimates notableMember Cicero
subject surface form: Optimates
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero
this entity surface form: Marcus Tullius Cicero (curule aedile, debated; he declined the aedileship in fact)
Tommy Flanagan portrayed Cicero
Baiae visitedBy Cicero