Marcus Tullius Cicero the Younger

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor ( Latin minor "the younger", also Cicero the younger ; * approx. 65 BC) was a Roman politician and senator .

Marcus was the son of the famous speaker of the same name and Terentia . He studied philosophy with Kratippos in Athens and was therefore not present at the death of his father, who had dedicated some works to him, for example De officiis . He then lived first with Marcus Junius Brutus , who also studied in Athens, then with Sextus Pompeius . Later he went to Octavian , who not only welcomed the son, but also showered him with honors, possibly to make the betrayal of the father forget. After the defeat of Mark Antony at Actium , Octavian sent Cicero to Rome to proclaim the news of Octavian's victory to the Roman people from the same platform to which Antonius had pinned his father's head 13 years earlier.

When Octavian had ended the war in Egypt, he appointed the young Cicero co-consul in the year 30 , in order to present Antony's fall to the Romans as a matter of nemesis . Under Cicero's chairmanship, after the death of Antony, the Senate passed the resolution to overturn all statues of the former triumvir and to remove his name from public monuments. Octavian appointed Cicero, who had also become Augur , after dressing the consulate as legate of Syria (probably 27 to 25 BC), then as proconsul of Asia (23 BC). Cicero was also pontiff .

literature

  • Michèle Ducos: Cicero (Marcus Tullius) fils. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 2, CNRS Éditions, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-271-05195-9 , pp. 395-396
  • Rudolf Hanslik, sv Tullius ... 30) M. Tullius Cicero, son of the great orator from Terentia, in: Paulys Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswwissenschaft, Vol. VII A, 2, 1948, Sp. 1281–1286
  • Maurice Testard: Le fils de Cicéron, destinataire du De Officiis. In: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé , 1962, pp. 198-213

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 4:51.
  2. ^ Plutarch , Cicero 49.
personal data
SURNAME Tullius Cicero, Marcus the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cicero, Marcus Tullius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 30 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH around 65 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 23 BC Chr.