Orator

About the book

'A wonderful book' TOM HOLLAND

'Marvellous... highly entertaining' EMMA SOUTHON

'Orator gives us a Cicero for our times... Compelling and beautifully written' EVE MACDONALD

A gripping new biography of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history: Cicero

When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off and his tongue pierced with pins - a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a generation and made him many enemies. Rising from provincial obscurity to the highest elected office in Rome, Cicero became the greatest orator of his age, a figure who believed that speech itself could defend a republic.

Yet Cicero was far...