Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome by Josiah Osgood

Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome

Josiah Osgood

384 pages first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction history politics
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In its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by a crime wave. An epidemic of extortions, murders, and acts of insurrection tested the court system’s capacity to maintain order. As case after case filled the docket, an ambitious young lawy...

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