Table of Contents

Cicero's antecedents and youth; the apprentice years; first cases, a crisis and a grand tour; quaestor - the first appointment; the prosecution of Verres; from aedile to praetor; the battle for the consulship; the consulship; the turning-point; on the defensive; exile and return; under the sway of the triumvirate; the governorship of Cilicia; the civil war; the philosopher under Caesar's dictatorship; the Ides of March; the final battle for the republic; defeat and death.