Antony And Cicero

[frankq]

Were there any personal differences between Antony and Cicero aside from political ones? I remember reading in Plutarch I think something to that effect.

 

I did a search here but couldnt find anything (or I missed it.)

[Sextus Roscius]

while i'm not quite sure what you mean by differences.

 

Antony and Cicero both followed very different walks of life from different places, I find it hard to imagine them being much the same. Cicero was always very upright and was very keen on republican values while Antony, being a ceaserian, was fairly new age and was in the army making him most likely have a more militeristic view on life and how things work than Cicero who was a politician with no battlefield experiance.

 

So I'm just going of presumtion here and saying that they most likely weren't very alike.

[Favonius Cornelius]

It's a funny question because I can not think of two more totally different people. Full on military man on the one hand, political animal on the other.

[frankq]

To once again answer my own question (I end up going out and researching invariably) the reasons for the differences are actually quite grounded. Cicero had Antony's father-in-law from his first marriage executed during the Caitline Conspiracy. Then, he married Fulvia, who had been going toe to toe with Cicero ever since she had been married to Clodius Pulcher, the consul and demagogue.

 

Ironically, Fulvia had originally been employed by Cicero as a spy. They went way back.

 

My next separate thread is gonna be about Cicero's death. I have almost 4 completely different versions already about how he died at the hands of Antony's hit squad.