Cicero

Examples of Cicero in the following topics:

• Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

  • Culture flourished during the Roman Republic with the emergence of great authors such as Cicero and Lucretius and the development of Roman relief and portraiture sculpture.
  • Cicero has traditionally been considered the master of Latin prose.
  • Cicero's many works can be divided into four groups: (1) letters, (2) rhetorical treatises, (3) philosophical works, and (4) orations.
  • Cicero's works on oratory are our most valuable Latin sources for ancient theories on education and rhetoric.
  • A mid-first century CE bust of Cicero in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

• History of Public Speaking

  • Cicero (106-43 BCE) is considered one of the most significant rhetoricians of all time.
  • Cicero is most famous in the field of public speaking for creating the five canons of rhetoric, a five-step process for developing a persuasive speech that we still use to teach public speaking today.
  • The rhetorical studies of ancient Greece and Rome were resurrected in the studies of the era as speakers and teachers looked to Cicero and others to inspire defense of the new republic.

• Defective Nouns

  • a) Proper names,—to denote different members of a family, or specimens of a type; as, Cicerōnēs, the Ciceros;Catōnēs, men like Cato.b) Names of materials,—to denote objects made of the material, or different kinds of the substance; as, aera,bronzes (i.e. bronze figures); ligna, woods.c) Abstract nouns,—to denote instances of the quality; as, ignōrantiae, cases of ignorance.

• Petrarch

  • Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance.
  • In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously known to have existed, the collection ad Atticum.

• The Origins of Culture

  • "cultivation") is a modern concept based on a term first used in classical antiquity by the Roman orator, Cicero: "cultura animi. " The term "culture" appeared first in its current sense in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, to connote a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture.

• Defining Culture

  • Historically, the term 'culture' emerged as in ancient Rome with Cicero's idea of cultura animi.

• Education and Humanism

  • Most of Feltre's ideas were based on those of previous classical authors, such as Cicero and Quintilian.

• Renaissance Writers

  • One of Bruni's most famous works is New Cicero, a biography of the Roman statesman Cicero.

• Crises of the Republic

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero, the consul at the time, intercepted messages regarding recruitment and plans, leading the Senate to authorize the assassination of many Catilinarian conspirators in Rome, an action that was seen as stemming from dubious authority.
  • Caesar also facilitated the election of patrician Publius Clodius Pulcher to the tribunate in 58 BCE, and Clodius sidelined Caesar’s senatorial opponents, Cato and Cicero.

• The Hawthorne Effect

  • The Last Vestige of the Hawthorne Works Plant in Cicero, Illinois