https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero What kind of time is this? en-us 2016-10-25 16:14:14 UTC 2016-10-25 19:38:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133090958 Cicero was born to a wealthy equestrian family. His family was part of the upper-middle class. His father provided both Cicero and his brother the best education in
Italy.  He received toga virilis at the age of 15 or 16. Later he studied law, which in Rome, went along with politics. He was also studying to master the liberal arts to enhance his law degree. He became a well rounded person because of his wealth and education.]]> 2016-10-25 16:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133090958 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133091535 Cicero served briefly under Pompeius Strabo and later under L. Cornelius Sulla in the Social War. After the war, Cicero spent his late teens and early twenties furthering his education and even wrote his first treatise]]> 2016-10-25 16:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133091535 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133091581 Military Tribune- Cicero served under Cornelius Sulla for his mandatory 10 years of military service, in the Italian Social Wars. 

Quaestor-  Cicero was elected to Quaestor in 75 B.C,  in Lilybaeum (part of modern Sicily) as part of the governor's staff, and gained him life membership in the Senate. 

Aedile- Cicero was elected to Aedile in 70 B.C, and was partly in charge of the administration of Rome, and the lavish games to appease the public. Cicero found it quite distasteful

Praetor- Cicero was elected to Praetor in 67 B.C, and essentially served as a major judge in Rome. He supported Pompey's control of the military during this time. 

Consul- After a series of difficulties in being elected to Consul, Cicero rises to the highest office in the Roman Republic in 64 B.C. He then unravels the Catiline Conspiracy during his Consular year, but did not succeed in fixing the underlying problems in the Republic and society that would later spark in the Civil War, and the rise of the Empire. ]]> 2016-10-25 16:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133091581 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133091747 They were the Populares, or "Demagogues," and the Optimates, or "Best Men." The Populares tried to ensure tribunician support for policies, which the Optimates didn't like because they wanted to maintain an oligarchy. The Optimates were the dominant group and blocked most efforts from the Populares. The Populares eventually gained more power through people like the Gracchi and provincial army commanders.]]> 2016-10-25 16:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133091747 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133092416 A plot devised by Roman senator Catiline to overthrow the consulship of Cicero and Hybrida, murdering a large portion of the senators. Would have started with Cicero's assassination early morning on Nov. 7, 63 BC, but Quintius Curius warned Cicero via his mistress Fulvia. Cicero exposed the plot, forcing Catiline to flee from Rome.]]> 2016-10-25 17:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133092416 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133092640 Clodius dressed up as a woman and sneaked into the Vestal Virgin's sacred ceremony. He was charged with impiety. Clodius was acquitted.]]> 2016-10-25 17:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133092640 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133093142
Cataline- Cicero spoke against him and destroyed his political career
Mark Antony-  Cicero had denounced him and then allied himself with Octavian, ordered his death.
Caesar- Cicero had taken the side of Pompey and was forced into hiding while Caesar was in power
Cleopatra VII
Pompey
Sulla
Brutus
Crassus
Claudius Pulcher- See Lesbia page

]]> 2016-10-25 17:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133093142 elmajor https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133093356 Terentia (first wife) - possible daughter of the Terentii Varrones (the most important senatorial branch of that family), half-sister of the Vestial Virgin Fabia, inherited her father's immense wealth after his death, divorced with Cicero after 30 years of marriage
Tullia Ciceronis (daughter) - the only daughter of Cicero, loved deeply by Cicero, died from illness in February 45 BC, referred by Cicero after her death: "I have lost the one thing that bound me to life."
Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor (son) - the only son of Cicero, joined the military against Cicero's wishes for him to be a philosopher, pardoned by Caesar, sent to Athens to study philosophy but instead went to "eat, drink and be merry", rejoined the army after his father's death, pardoned by Augustus, became an augur (priest) and consul, revoked the honors of Mark Antony, and was eventually appointed proconsul of Syria and the province of Asia
Publilia (wife) - a young girl (14 or 15) and ward of Cicero, needed by Cicero for her money (to repay dowry of the wealthy Terentia), yet their marriage quickly fell apart]]> 2016-10-25 17:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elmajor/Cicero/wish/133093356