Add to ORKGCicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar sitting on the speakers’ platform (which is were the run of the Luperci came to an end), decked out in quasi-royal regalia (a purple toga, a golden chair, a crown) but not yet unequivocally a ‘king’. The runners arrive, in the nude as is ritual practice, but somehow Antony has a diadem on him: where does it come from? Cicero ponders various possibilities he rejects (for instance: Antony just f..
§§ 48–50a are devoted to Antony’s public career in the 50s BCE. At the opening of § 48, we are in Ro...
When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been o...
One of the most hotly contested issues after the Ides of March was Caesar’s ‘ontological status’: wa...
Cicero is winding down the discussion of Antony’s augural objections to the consulship of Dolabella....
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
In March 45, Antony left Narbo in Southern Gaul for a surprise visit to Rome that caused some conste...
The summer of 44 B.C. that followed the death of Julius Caesar was a time of political tension for M...
The paragraph falls into two halves: in the first (Quid ego… cliens esse), Cicero continues to belab...
Mark Antony was amassing political support, but Octavian still had the opportunity to rival him as t...
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assa...
Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria, when Julius Caesar was...
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...
Around 20 May 44 BCE, Antony returned to Rome — together with several thousand veterans settled at C...
On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity of the Roman stat...
§§ 48–50a are devoted to Antony’s public career in the 50s BCE. At the opening of § 48, we are in Ro...
When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been o...
One of the most hotly contested issues after the Ides of March was Caesar’s ‘ontological status’: wa...
Cicero is winding down the discussion of Antony’s augural objections to the consulship of Dolabella....
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
In March 45, Antony left Narbo in Southern Gaul for a surprise visit to Rome that caused some conste...
The summer of 44 B.C. that followed the death of Julius Caesar was a time of political tension for M...
The paragraph falls into two halves: in the first (Quid ego… cliens esse), Cicero continues to belab...
Mark Antony was amassing political support, but Octavian still had the opportunity to rival him as t...
Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assa...
Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria, when Julius Caesar was...
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...
Around 20 May 44 BCE, Antony returned to Rome — together with several thousand veterans settled at C...
On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity of the Roman stat...
§§ 48–50a are devoted to Antony’s public career in the 50s BCE. At the opening of § 48, we are in Ro...
When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been o...
One of the most hotly contested issues after the Ides of March was Caesar’s ‘ontological status’: wa...