Classics for All: Dr Kathryn Tempest on ‘Corruption as symptom and cause: Cicero and the decline of the Roman Republic’

TIME: 5:30PM - 8:00PM

DATE: Tuesday, April 28th 2026

Classics for All fundraising event

Dr Kathryn Tempest: ‘Corruption as symptom and cause: Cicero and the decline of the Roman Republic’

Tuesday 28 April, doors open 5:30pm 

Twenty Essex Street, London WC2R 3AL

Lawyers’ Group members are invited to book their ticket to an evening with historian, author and lecturer at the University of Leicester, Dr Kathryn Tempest. If you would like to attend this Lawyers’ Group exclusive event and others like it, please join via the button below.

In this lecture and Q&A, we will use Cicero’s speeches to explore how Romans debated the meaning of corruption, what legal mechanisms they devised to restrain it, and why they ultimately came to see the moral and political decay of their leaders as a cause, and a symptom, of the Republic’s collapse

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Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.