Sextus Roscius
from Great Trials in History Hosted by Chris Lampe
In this episode we journey to ancient Rome. In 81 BCE, a wealthy old man was stabbed to death on the streets of Rome. It appeared to be a random attack ,at least initially . Not long after,his only son was charged in a Roman court with patricide, the heinous crime of killing his own father. Facing a horrendous punishment if convicted and shunned by the established lawyers in Rome , he turned to a 26 year old neophyte named Marcus Tullius Cicero to act as his advocate. The explosive facts brought out by Cicero during the trial would shake the foundation of the Roman government. It would also mark Cicero as a man to be reckoned with in Roman politics.
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