Place

Arpinum

Latium · Modern Italy

A hilltop town southeast of Rome. Birthplace of both Cicero and the general Gaius Marius. From this small town came two men who shaped the late Republic.

Thinkers Connected to Arpinum

Cicero

106 BCE – 43 BCE

He translated Greek philosophy into Latin and into politics. Rome's greatest orator was also its most restless thinker.

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