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William H. F. Altman, "The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero" (Lexington Books, 2016)

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Political Context of the Late Roman Republic

Altman outlines the Republic's crisis, Sulla and Marius, and Cicero's social background as a novus homo from Arpinum.

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