Cicero

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Chronology

Maps

1. Fault Lines

2. “Always Be the Best, My Boy, the Bravest”

3. The Forum and the Fray

4. Politics and Foreign Postings

5. Against Catilina

6. Pretty-Boy’s Revenge

7. Exile

8. The Ideal Constitution

9. The Drift to Civil War

10. “A Strange Madness”

11. Pacifying Caesar

12. Philosophical Investigations

13. “Why, This IS Violence!”

14. The Heir

15. Cicero’s Civil War

16. Death at the Seaside

17. Postmortems

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Sources

A Reader’s Guide

Questions for Discussion

About the Author