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 ...

Don’t look now, but the 2025 New York high school football playoffs have arrived. The first round of the Section III playoffs kicks off this week in all eight classifications. In Class AA, No. 6 seed ...

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 ...