Add to ORKGAs we are nearing the end of the speech, Cicero once again calls attention to the time and the location of the (imaginary) delivery of the speech — a specific moment on 19 September in the temple of Concordia — before opening up, via a strong rebuke of Antony’s decision to bring along an armed body guard, to discuss the relation between statesmen and the wider civic community, with a special focus on the issue of ‘personal safety’. As far as he is concerned, a politician who inspires hatred w..
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
In 56 BCE, a series of prodigies takes place in the vicinity of Rome. Frightened by this event, the ...
In §§ 92–97, Cicero blasts Antony for the forged decrees of Caesar that he used to enrich himself or...
The previous paragraph ended on the dictum that only a life in harmony with the wider civic communit...
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
This paper proposes a reading of Cicero’s Fourth Catilinarian as a consistent and historically reali...
Cicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar...
In the run-up to the election of Dolabella as suffect consul, Antony seems to have announced that he...
Cicero continues to blast Antony for his conduct in Southern Italy. His attack is three-pronged: a b...
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 works towards a rousing conclusion by shifting the focus from Antony back to himself: he ...
Cicero here revisits the tense period right after Caesar’s assassination, 15–17 March. Here is a bri...
When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been o...
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes o...
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
In 56 BCE, a series of prodigies takes place in the vicinity of Rome. Frightened by this event, the ...
In §§ 92–97, Cicero blasts Antony for the forged decrees of Caesar that he used to enrich himself or...
The previous paragraph ended on the dictum that only a life in harmony with the wider civic communit...
Cicero now returns to the issue of the (fake) auspices that Antony produced to challenge the validit...
This paper proposes a reading of Cicero’s Fourth Catilinarian as a consistent and historically reali...
Cicero now moves on to a vivid account of what happened on 15 February 44 BCE. He starts with Caesar...
In the run-up to the election of Dolabella as suffect consul, Antony seems to have announced that he...
Cicero continues to blast Antony for his conduct in Southern Italy. His attack is three-pronged: a b...
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 works towards a rousing conclusion by shifting the focus from Antony back to himself: he ...
Cicero here revisits the tense period right after Caesar’s assassination, 15–17 March. Here is a bri...
When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been o...
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes o...
In the face of Octavian's large and capable force, Antony saw the danger of staying in Rome and, to ...
In 56 BCE, a series of prodigies takes place in the vicinity of Rome. Frightened by this event, the ...
In §§ 92–97, Cicero blasts Antony for the forged decrees of Caesar that he used to enrich himself or...