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Cicero: Rome’s Greatest Defender

Written by Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom There are many great Romans whose names are still honored to this day. None has been more feted down the centuries than Cicero. He was perhaps Rome’s greatest author and one of its greatest orators and philosophers. Cicero was also one the last defenders of the Roman

Written on May 27, 2020 at 8:00 am, by Whelan

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Categories: Leaders

Tags: Academic Scepticism, Augustus, Cataline, Cicero, First Triumvirate, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, Roman empire, Roman Republic, Scepticisim, Statesman

Man: The Political Animal

Written by David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Tragic Road to Tyranny Imagine your leader is a brilliant and bold military genius who, through multiple conquests, has expanded the borders of your country by orders of magnitude. He does it because he and some of your leaders have ambitions of empire, need of new

Written on March 20, 2020 at 10:00 am, by David Hooker

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aristotle, Athenian Democracy, democracy, freedom, game of thrones, greek democracy, Julius Caesar, monarchy, oligarchy, Plato, Politics, Polybius, populism, tyranny

Brutus: Traitor or Patriot?

Et tu, Brute? Whether or not Caesar once uttered those dramatic words, he probably did think it. After all, it was a literal backstabbing moment; Brutus was Caesar’s friend and protege. Of all the 23 knives that plunged into his flesh, that one would have hurt the most. But Shakespeare’s famous line about the ancient

Written on February 24, 2020 at 4:38 pm, by plato

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: Assassination of Caesar, Ides of March, Julius Caesar, Times of Tyranny, When to Kill a Tyrant

5 Women Who Changed Antiquity

By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom It’s no secret that women are vastly underrepresented in the historical record. Biographical information, even about some of the most prominent women like Cleopatra, is often gleamed from tangential accounts focused on male counterparts. Of course this doesn’t mean that women did not making massive contributions to arts,

Written on October 2, 2019 at 9:19 am, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: People

Tags: Agrippina the Younger, Ancient Egyptian Pharoh, Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Hypatia, Hypatia of Alexandria, Julius Caesar, Livia, Thutmose, Tiberius Claudius Nero

The Birth of the Biography

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom What springs to mind when we think about literature of the Ancient World? Maybe it’s Homer’s Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector around Troy or Sophocles’ Oedipus stabbing out his polluted eyes. Perhaps it’s Plato’s Socrates holding forth or Herodotus’ Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. It even might

Written on July 5, 2019 at 12:38 pm, by Ben Potter

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Categories: History

Tags: Antony, Aristotle, Augustus, biography, Cleopatra, Funeral Oration, Hadrian, Herodotus, History, Homer, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Odyssey, pericles, Plutarch, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulla and Sallust, Tacitus, Theopompus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Timaeus, Xenophon

Pompey Needs a Buddy

by Cam Rea, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Rome was expecting the Parthian invasion, but it never came. Instead, in the west, the Great Roman Civil War exploded, in the years 49 – 45 BC. It was a politico-military conflict which pitted Pompey against Caesar, each vying for leadership of the Roman state. It was during

Written on March 20, 2019 at 9:03 am, by Cam Rea

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Categories: Wars

Tags: Cassius Dio, Julius Caesar, King Orodes, Parthia, Plutarch, Pompey, Roman-Parthian Wars

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