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Rhetoric and Republic: Cicero’s Fight for the Soul of Rome

Rhetoric and Republic: Cicero’s Fight for the Soul of Rome

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What does it take to rebuild a crumbling republic—not just its laws, but its people? In this episode, we unpack the preface to Cicero’s De Re Publica and his overlooked rhetorical strategy: persuading Romans to embrace public life through philosophy disguised as tradition. Rather than just defending the “mixed constitution,” Cicero shames quietists, challenges pleasure-seekers, and recruits ambitious men to politics by retooling Greek philosophy into Roman virtue. We explore how Cicero battled Epicurean withdrawal, invoked the mores of the ancestors, and subtly wove Stoic and Platonic ideals into a Roman framework. His aim? To form not only a stronger republic, but a wiser ruling class.

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