Reading the First Catilinarian and letters of Cicero have made the uncertainty and insecurity of Rome more real for me than any of my readings of Syme, Wiseman or even Plutarch. The daily anxiety of reassessing relationships would have been almost unbearable. Reading Cicero has caused me to go back and change the section of my Master's thesis where I describe the world in which Catullus wrote.
Orie Byars
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