Welcome to Cicero’s Corner, Center for Speaking. Located in the LRC, the Center’s mission is to facilitate personal and professional growth through the medium of speech. The Center provides recording and video self-services, print and electronic materials, and personal appointments in our writing lab to help develop the best version of you.
Harrison County Campus Library: The center is currently open Monday –Thursday, 7:30am-8:00pm, and Fridays 7:30am to 3:30pm. Students are asked to sign in to the center via computer station.
Jackson County Campus Library: The JC Cicero's Corner will be available during library hours. Monday - Thursday: 7:30am-7:00pm and Friday 7:30am-4:30pm. To reserve, stop by the library, call (228) 497-7830, or email jc.library@mgccc.edu. Check-in at the library desk for access to the room.
Who was Cicero? Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) was a Roman politician, philosopher, lawyer, author, and orator (speaker). He was a relentless supporter of Roman Republic and was called the pater patriae (father of the country) by his fellow Romans for his service to Rome.
His speeches were so powerful that when Mark Antony had him assassinated (for his anti-Antony speeches), he had him beheaded and his hands cut off; the hands and head were nailed to the Rostra (a public platform in Rome where speakers would deliver their speeches). Fulvia, Antony’s wife, pulled out his tongue from his decapitated head and stabbed it with her hairpin.
In modern times Cicero is considered the greatest Roman speaker and the founder of Ciceronian rhetoric.
Dr. Gwendolyn Carter, Librarian
Email: gwendolyn.carter@mgccc.edu; jc.library@mgccc.edu
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