Politics of the Late Republic Modern Scholarship

Fred Drogula on Cato

'Tenaciously fought men who sought individual advancement'

'an unchanging monolith, always opposed to Caesar, always inflexible with his opinions, always certain in his action, always unwilling to yield'

'his death has become the thing best known'

Ed Bispham on Cato

'willingness to die, unwillingness to comprimise'

'austere traditional value'

Ed Bispham on Cicero

'moderate constitutionalist'

Katherine Tempest on Caesar

'murdered as a tyrannical and populist dictator'

H.Swain on Caesar

'reached an unassailable autocratic position'

'fundamemtally unrepublican'

H. van der Blom on Pompey

'advanced his career less through oratorical skills.. more through his popularity with the people'

'shrewd political talent.. knew when to, or not to speak'

'ambition as the driving force of his career'

'insatiable ambition for power and glory'