1. Marcus Tullius Cicero – a biography
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* 03.01.106 B.C.
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from Arpinum (today: Arpino)
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son of an eques
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homo novus
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moving to Rome in 102 B.C.
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rhetorical and philosophical
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public activity with speech (orator)
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81 B.C.: defended Sextus Roscius
(accusing Chrysogonus, mighty favourite of Sulla)
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ascended to the most important lawyer
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„cure“ and study
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public activity with speech (orator)
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81 B.C.: defended Sextus Roscius
(accusing Chrysogonus, mighty favourite of Sulla)
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ascended to the most important lawyer
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„cure“ and study
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75 B.C.: beginning of his senatorial career
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75 B.C.: quaestor
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confidence of the inhabitants of the province
of Sicilia
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70 B.C.: patronus of the Sicilians
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process against Gaius Verres
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most important orator of Rome
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69 B.C.: aedil
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66 B.C.: praetor
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first state speech (De imperio Cn. Pompei)
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63 B.C.: consul
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= peak and turning point of Cicero's political
career
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peak: revealed catilinarian conspiracy
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then: negative turning point:
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triumvirate among Caesar, Crassus, Pompeius
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59 B.C.: Caesar became consul
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no support for Cicero from his party, the optimates
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exiled by Clodius
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57 B.C.: return to Italy
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no political work possible
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withdrawal into private sphere
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wrote about ethics, rhetoric etc.
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51 B.C.: Governor of Cilicia
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beginning of the civil war between
Caesar and Pompeius
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joined Pompeius
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48 B.C.: return to Italy
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stay at Brundisium to 47 B.C.
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personal pardon by Caesar
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wrote three more works (e.g. paradoxa
Stoicorum)
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46 B.C.: Caesar won the battle at
Thapsus
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45 B.C.: Caesar defeated the sons of
Pompeius at Munda
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= end of the civil war
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46 B.C.: divorce from Terentia
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45 B.C.: wedding with/ divorce from Publilia
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45 B.C.: death of daughter Tullia
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distract and consolation with philosophy
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wrote more books
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44 B.C.: assassination of Caesar
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once again political position
hope for recovery of the
res publica
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was disappointed
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called for the battle against Antonius in his
Philippics
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Antonius became declared enemy of
the state
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was defeated at Munda and banished
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Cicero's hope in Octavian was
disappointed:
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triumvirate among Octavian, Antonius
and Lepidus
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proscription against Cicero
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7.12.43 B.C.: was murdered by Caieta
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Sources
books:
Dr. Philips, Heribert: Lateinische Klassiker, M. Tullius Cicero, Briefe, Cicero und seine Zeit; Verlag Schöningh
Zink, Norbert: Modelle für den altsprachlichen Unterricht Latein, Accedere ad rem publicam – a re publica recedere? Verlag Moritz Diesterweg
pictures:
Bild Cicero
http://www.aphorism4all.com/images/1362925584.jpg
Büste Ciceros in den Kapitolinischen Museen, Rom
Karte: Imperium Romanum
http://www.google.de/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Roman-Empire-39BC-bg.png&sa=X&ei=8CNCVYT_J8bjase
Cicero beschuldigt Catilinarier der Verschwörung:
http://picture.yatego.com/images/4cdc1c666d0e95.3/41_00000046-kqh/cicero-beschuldigt-catilina-im-senat-der-versch---.jpg
Büste Caesars
http://polpix.sueddeutsche.com/polopoly_fs/1.113387.1358229525!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/900x600/image.jpg
Marcus Licinius Crassus; Porträtbüste im Louvre
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus_Louvre.jpg
Büste des Pompeius in Kopenhagen
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Pompejus.JPG
Büste von Clodius
http://www.genealogie-93-generationen.eu/bilder/B%20174336%20H.jpg
Antonius: Büste in der Vatikanstadt
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/M_Antonius_modified.png
Augustus mit Bürgerkrone (Corona civica)
So genannte „Augustus Bevilacqua“-Büste, Münchner Glyptothek
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Augustus_Bevilacqua_Glyptothek_Munich_317.jpg
Büste des Lepidus:
http://www.ageod-forum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19904
Felix Maximilian Gimmel, Latin Course Class 10, Neues Gymnasium