Cicero's Law

In 1939, the Oxford historian, Sir Ronald Syme, celebrated Cicero for his “enduring influence upon the course of all European civilization.” In the cinematic version of Roman history, the republican orator is pitted against the tyrant warrior, Julius Caesar. Georgetown’s Josiah Osgood dulls Cicero’s glow somewhat in his Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome.