When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been overtaken and slain in flight —, Antony uttered many bitter reproaches against it and then ordered it to be exposed on the speakers-platform more prominently than the rest, in order that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard declaiming against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off. And Fulvia took the head into her hands before it was re..
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
Cicero now works towards a rousing conclusion by shifting the focus from Antony back to himself: he ...
Cicero is winding down the discussion of Antony’s augural objections to the consulship of Dolabella....
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assa...
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
Cicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar...
Cicero continues to blast Antony for his conduct in Southern Italy. His attack is three-pronged: a b...
Cicero follows up on his claim in the previous paragraph that Antony ought to have been killed a lon...
§§ 48–50a are devoted to Antony’s public career in the 50s BCE. At the opening of § 48, we are in Ro...
As we are nearing the end of the speech, Cicero once again calls attention to the time and the locat...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-106).Just before the end of the Roman Republic, Cicer...
Cicero concludes his examination of Antony’s inconsistency in handling Caesar and his legacy by lamb...
1.1 (Character) Assassination as a Means of Politics in Late-Republican Rome The convulsive showdown...
Cicero here revisits the tense period right after Caesar’s assassination, 15–17 March. Here is a bri...
The summer of 44 B.C. that followed the death of Julius Caesar was a time of political tension for M...
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
Cicero now works towards a rousing conclusion by shifting the focus from Antony back to himself: he ...
Cicero is winding down the discussion of Antony’s augural objections to the consulship of Dolabella....
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assa...
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
Cicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar...
Cicero continues to blast Antony for his conduct in Southern Italy. His attack is three-pronged: a b...
Cicero follows up on his claim in the previous paragraph that Antony ought to have been killed a lon...
§§ 48–50a are devoted to Antony’s public career in the 50s BCE. At the opening of § 48, we are in Ro...
As we are nearing the end of the speech, Cicero once again calls attention to the time and the locat...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-106).Just before the end of the Roman Republic, Cicer...
Cicero concludes his examination of Antony’s inconsistency in handling Caesar and his legacy by lamb...
1.1 (Character) Assassination as a Means of Politics in Late-Republican Rome The convulsive showdown...
Cicero here revisits the tense period right after Caesar’s assassination, 15–17 March. Here is a bri...
The summer of 44 B.C. that followed the death of Julius Caesar was a time of political tension for M...
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
Cicero now works towards a rousing conclusion by shifting the focus from Antony back to himself: he ...
Cicero is winding down the discussion of Antony’s augural objections to the consulship of Dolabella....