Add to ORKGCicero is winding down the discussion of Antony’s augural objections to the consulship of Dolabella. The next topic on the agenda is the festival of the Lupercalia on 15 February 44 BCE. At Phil. 13.41 Cicero suggests that Antony as good as murdered Caesar on that day by trying to crown him with a diadem. What exactly happened — and why — is difficult to establish with certainty — not least since it is tied up with the significance of a rather strange religious rite, the Lupercalia, which has..
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Cicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar...
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The Lupercalia was a feast with multiple meanings and its origin was attributed by sources to Romulu...
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Holleman A. W. J. Cicero on the Luperci (Cael. 26). In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 44, fasc. 1, 197...
In 56 BCE, a series of prodigies takes place in the vicinity of Rome. Frightened by this event, the ...
El presente artículo examina la invectiva ciceroniana contra P. Clodio en De haruspicum responso, to...
At the end of the previous paragraph, we left Antony with Caesar in furthest Gaul (54 BCE). Now we h...
In the run-up to the election of Dolabella as suffect consul, Antony seems to have announced that he...
Mark Antony was amassing political support, but Octavian still had the opportunity to rival him as t...
The paragraph falls into two halves: in the first (Quid ego… cliens esse), Cicero continues to belab...
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assa...
Cicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar...
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
In this and the following paragraph Cicero dwells on the moment Antony decided to invalidate or at l...
The Lupercalia was a feast with multiple meanings and its origin was attributed by sources to Romulu...
It is widely agreed that Augustus dealt with the festival Lupercalia. However, the evidence about hi...
Cicero follows up on his claim in the previous paragraph that Antony ought to have been killed a lon...
Cicero here revisits the tense period right after Caesar’s assassination, 15–17 March. Here is a bri...
Holleman A. W. J. Cicero on the Luperci (Cael. 26). In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 44, fasc. 1, 197...
In 56 BCE, a series of prodigies takes place in the vicinity of Rome. Frightened by this event, the ...
El presente artículo examina la invectiva ciceroniana contra P. Clodio en De haruspicum responso, to...
At the end of the previous paragraph, we left Antony with Caesar in furthest Gaul (54 BCE). Now we h...
In the run-up to the election of Dolabella as suffect consul, Antony seems to have announced that he...
Mark Antony was amassing political support, but Octavian still had the opportunity to rival him as t...
The paragraph falls into two halves: in the first (Quid ego… cliens esse), Cicero continues to belab...
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assa...