About 10 results for ‘Cicero’
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero, was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, Roman consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary (with neologisms such as humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia) distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. According to Polish historian Tadeusz Zieliński, "Renaissance was above all things a revival of Cicero, and only after him and through him of the rest of Classical antiquity. " The peak of Cicero's authority and prestige came during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and his impact on leading Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and Montesquieu was substantial. His works rank among the most influential in European culture, and today still constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for the writing and revision of Roman history, especially the last days of the Roman Republic. Though he was an accomplished orator and successful lawyer, Cicero believed his political career was his most important achievement. It was during his consulship that the Catiline conspiracy attempted the government overthrow through an attack on the city from outside forces, and Cicero suppressed the revolt by executing five conspirators without due process. During the chaotic latter half of the 1st century BC marked by civil wars and the dictatorship of Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional republican government. Following Julius Caesar's death Cicero became an enemy of Mark Antony in the ensuing power struggle, attacking him in a series of speeches. He was proscribed as an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and subsequently murdered in 43 BC.
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
CICERON DECOUVRANT LE TOMBEAU D'ARCHIMEDE
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archimedes
- Bank (geography)
- Ceres (mythology)
- Cicero
- Deciduous
- Landscape
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Buste de Cicéron
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cicero
- Man
- Politician
- Portrait
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Buste de Cicéron
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cicero
- Man
- Politician
- Portrait
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Félix Auvray
L'épée de Damoclès
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bed
- Crown (headgear)
- Man
- Sword
- Syracuse, Sicily
- Temple
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- Date:
- 19th century
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La clémence de César
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cicero
- Crown (headgear)
- Julius Caesar
- Pardon
- Quintus Ligarius
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean-Antoine Houdon
Cicéron (Marcus Tullius Cicero, dit) (Arpinum, vers 106 a...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cicero
- Man
- Politician
- Portrait
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
Cicéron découvrant le tombeau d'Archimède
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient history
- Archimedes
- Bank (geography)
- Ceres (mythology)
- Cicero
- Deciduous
- …
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- Date:
- 17th century
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La Sentence de Ligarius ; Cicéron accuse Catilina devant ...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cicero
- Julius Caesar
- Pardon
- Quintus Ligarius
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Cicéron
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cicero
- Man
- Politician
- Portrait
- Toga
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Planches de l'iconographie romaine (pl 12) : Hommes illus...
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
- Numismatics
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient Rome
- Cicero
- Man
- Money
- Politician
- Portrait
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- Date:
- 19th century
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