Tullius Cicero, Marcus: Treatises on Friendship and Old Age (Hero Classics)

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 highest political office in the republic, in 64 BC. Cicero ended up exiled in 58 BC after being a part of a conspiracy against the republic. He was restored to Rome and wrote the Treatises On Friendship and Old Age in 44BC. Around this time, Caesar was assassinated, and Cicero was put to death by Mark Antony the year after.