Using Cicero's letters to his good friend Atticus, among other sources, Everitt recreates the fascinating world of political intrigue, sexual decadence and civil unrest of Republican Rome. Against ...

CICERO: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician. By Anthony Everitt. Random House, $25.95; 368 pp. MARCUS Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and orator, dressed in a toga, traveled in a litter ...

On this day more than 2000 years ago, one of the most powerful men in the world was brutally beheaded in a macabre public display. First his throat was slit, then it took three blows to cut off his ...

The Romans knew at least this about power: It never comes free. Few men can teach that lesson as well as Cicero, a brilliant orator, lawyer and politician whose rise to power at the end of the Roman ...