Using Cicero’s letters as his source, Boissier paints Roman society in the last years of the Republic. He examines Cicero in public and private life, then his circle: the shrewd banker Atticus, the dashing Caelius, Caesar, Brutus and the young Octavius, showing how a generation of politicians was swept away by revolution.
A classic French study of Cicero’s world, full of insight into Roman character and politics. Download the free EPUB.