Cicero's Contribution to the Roman State

Author

Robert Emmet Tehan, Marquette University

Date of Award

5-1927

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

James J. Doyle

Second Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

No Roman, perhaps no historical personage, has been more extravagantly praised or more unjustly assailed and belittled than Cicero. The eulogies of Middleton and Trollope and the slanders of Drumann and Mommsen are equally unreasonable; but both the praise and the censure are testimony to Cicero's importance in his own day and to his position of influence in modern times. He was, as Ferrero says, in Roman history and in the history of that European civilization which began with Rome, the first statesman belonging to the intellectual class.

Comments

A thesis submitted partially to fulfill the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Recommended Citation

Tehan, Robert Emmet, "Cicero's Contribution to the Roman State" (1927). Bachelors’ Theses. 1625.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1625