Michael Hordern's character, Cicero, explicitly modeled himself on the Greek orator Demosthenes: Plutarch notes strong parallels between the two men's lives, including that both came from socially modest backgrounds, both overcame speech defects to reinvent themselves as famous public speakers, and both died violently as a result of messing with debauched, politically powerful younger men (Marc Antony in Cicero's case, Alexander the Great in Demosthenes's). Hordern played Demosthenes in Alessandro il grande (1956), where Richard Burton, who plays Marc Antony here, played his nemesis Alexander.

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