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Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole – Antigone

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Each year of my forty teaching Latin I would tell my students the same moral tale. It is the once well-known legend of Marcus Atilius Regulus, the Roman senator and general who was captured by the Carthaginians during the First Punic War (264–241 BC), the first of three seminal wars between the superpowers of Rome and Carthage that would determine the character of western history. The story was still being told and cited two centuries later by Cicero, no less, and testifies to the enduring power of its message. Cicero (106– 43BC) is our surviving voice and moral compass of the Roman republic.  He wrote 106 orations, 900 letters and many political and philosophical essays. For two millennia, up until about the middle of the last century “every educated European and American read Cicero… Cicero became the symbol of the statesman who sacrifices popularity, a short-term benefit that could be purchased only by vice, for fame, an everlasting glory that could be secured only through virtue.”[

John Roth Each year of my forty teaching Latin I would tell my students the same moral tale. It is the once well-known legend of Marcus Atilius Regulus, the Roman senator and general who was captured by the Carthaginians during the First Punic War (264–241 BC), the first of three seminal wars between the superpowers of Rome and Carthage that would determine the character of western history. The story was still being told and cited two centuries later by Cicero, no less, and testifies to the enduring power of its message. Cicero (106– 43BC) is our surviving voice and moral compass of the Roman

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