Cicero's Life and Career

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1. What was the Bona Dea Ceremony?

  • Each year the vestal virgins conducted a ceremony in the home of the current pontifex Maximus
  • Every Leap Year the vestal virgins conducted a ceremony in the temple of jupitor Stator
  • Each year the vestal virgins would kill the current Pontifex Maximus to compete the tradition
  • Every Leap year, the vestal virgins would spill the blood of the sacrifices around the city gates of Rome.
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2. How old was Cicero when he served in the army?

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3. What continued to scare Cicero after the Catiline Conspiracy?

  • That the optimates would abandon him because he went against their wishes
  • That Caesar would no longer be his friend
  • in fear of trialor exile for having to put roman citizens to death without trial
  • That Catiline may march upon Rome

4. Who did Cicero Marry?

  • Publilia, age 27 in 79BC
  • Terentia, age 27 in 79BC
  • Terentia, age 31 in 83BC
  • Tullia, age 24 in 76BC
  • Tullia, age 29 in 81BC
  • Octavia, age 30 in 82BC

5. What were the Catiline Orations an example of?

  • Cicero's ability to write outstanding works.
  • Cicero's outstanding rhetoric skills
  • Cicero's ability to be an outstanding defence lawyer
  • Cicero's outstanding persuasive skills

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