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Lawless
Republic
The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
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The
collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic
told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.
In
its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by crime. Cases of
extortion, murder and insurrection gave an ambitious young lawyer
named Cicero high-profile opportunities to litigate and forge a
reputation as a master debater with a bright political future. In
Lawless Republic, leading Roman historian Josiah Osgood recounts the
legendary orator's ascent and fall, and his pivotal role in the
republic's lurch toward autocracy.
Cicero's
first appearance in the courts came shortly after the end of a brutal
civil war. After leveraging his fame as a lawyer to become a consul,
he ruthlessly crushed a coup by suppressing the liberties of Roman
citizens. The premiere legal mind of Rome came to argue that the
pursuit of a higher justice could sometimes justify sweeping the law
aside, laying the groundwork for Roman history's most famous act of
political violence - the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Lawless Republic vividly resurrects the spectacle of the courts in the time of Cicero and Caesar, showing how politics trumped the rule of law and sealed the fate of Rome.
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