Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BC to a statesman and orator in Arpino, Italy, a small town outside of Rome, during the late Roman republic. Cicero, along with his brother, were placed under the instruction of Archias, a Greek poet. Cicero studied law and then spent a short time as a soldier under Pompeius Strabo. Cicero became an advocate and studied philosophy, oratory, logic and rhetoric while traveling Greece and Asia. He became quaestor in 76 BC and rose to the consulship, the...
