Cicero
106 BCE – 43 BCE Roman philosopher, orator, statesman
Rome's greatest orator, who carried Greek philosophy into Latin.
- Religion
- Roman state religion, which he treated with philosophical skepticism while defending its civic value.
- Affiliations
- Roman Senate and consulship. No secret society.
Cicero translated Greek philosophy into Latin and shaped the language of ethics, law, and rhetoric for the West. His speeches and letters are models of prose and windows into the fall of the Republic. Executed in the power struggles after Caesar's death, his ideas later fed the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.