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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Marcus Tullius Cicero. I welcome Josiah Osgood, whose new book very much tells the story of a lawless republic, the title of the book. This is Rome before the

emperors. This is Rome before Caesar's murder. This is first century BC, born 106 BC and enjoying a career

until his death in 43 BCE, is Marcus Tullius Cicero.

We know much about him because he had a very loyal slave named Tiro,

who left a great deal of evidence of Cicero's best moments in trial and his letters afterwards,

because he was not only a masterful orator and a great

defense attorney, he became a political actor involved in all of the machinations right up until

the birth of the empire. Professor Osgood, congratulations. You and I both have exchanged thoughts about this.

There's a high entertainment value here. At the same time, there's serious business about the

end of a republic and the beginning of an empire, always a moment here in the United States,

because there's reason to believe we've built our institutions on the foundations laid down by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago.

First, Marcus Tullius Cicero, as a young man, he was a new man, that is to say, not born into the elite.

What does it mean to be a new man in the first century BCE in Rome?

Good evening to you.

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