Conventional take on Cicero, nothing new

Review of Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt

This is a good undergraduate-level panoramic view, but it does not make the man or his era come to life or add anything new. You get very solid overviews of how the government functioned, what people believed in, and how a major politician (and far better writer) tried to mold things in his own way. It’s essentially the version that Cicero and a few of …