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Cicero was oneof the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both apolitician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justiceto the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conferencewhich aimed to enlarge the basis for the study of Cicero's reception, byexamining in detail new aspects of its variety. The conference was held in May2015, and was jointly organized by the Institute of Classical Studies, theWarburg Institute, and the Department of Greek and Latin at University CollegeLondon. The bookpresents twelve case studies on the reception of `Cicero the writer' and`Cicero the man', ranging from thirteenth-century Italy to nineteenth-centuryEngland, including colonial Latin America. Scholars from different disciplinarybackgrounds discuss artistic and literary responses to Cicero as well as hisexploitation in philosophical and political debates. Taken together, thesestudies illustrate how the special characteristics of the historical Cicerocolour his reception: his afterlife is one of the most varied and wide-rangingof any classical author.