Cicero on moral decline and necessity of the ethic reform in the Roman Republic of the I B.C.

Abstract

The article analyses Cicero’s views on moral decline in the Roman society of the first century B.C., and the research of the interrelation between the moral decline and the degradation of the Roman Republic and the discussion of a possibility of an ethical reform in the Roman society in Cicero’s works.

Keywords

• Cicero
• moral decline
• ethical reform
• the first century B.C.
• Ancient Rome
• Roman Republic
• Roman society
• mores majorum