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John Ferguson
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President, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, England, 1979–86. Professor, Dean, and Director of Studies in Arts, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, 1969–79. Author of The Heritage of Hellenism and others.

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Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.
Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. His writings include books of rhetoric, orations, philosophical and political treatises, and letters. He is remembered in modern…
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