4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Roman senator Gaius Cassius Longinus — the primary organizer of the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar — who is in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar the lean and hungry pragmatist who envies Caesar's greatness and recruits the idealistic Brutus to give the conspiracy moral legitimacy.
Roman senator — father-in-law of Julius Caesar — and Epicurean sympathizer who was the target of Cicero's virulent In Pisonem — representing the combination of political power and philosophical materialism that Cicero regarded as the most dangerous Roman type.
Roman Epicurean who was part of Brutus's philosophical circle — and who refused to join the conspiracy against Caesar on Epicurean grounds that the wise man should not risk himself for an ungrateful people.
Cicero's closest friend and primary correspondent — the Letters to Atticus are the most important source for Cicero's inner life — who managed to maintain friendships with all sides of the civil wars through studied neutrality and who was the leading publisher of ancient Rome.