Answering the Republic's Call
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23424908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Lintott (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 374-407 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cicero as Evidence (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216444.003.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W2491892989 |
| ISBN | 9780199216444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter begins with a discussion of Cicero's speech that he termed as his Philippics. The first part of this speech is a defence of his departure and return, portraying it as a response to Antonius' own behaviour: he had been waiting and hoping for the res publica to return at long last to the authority of the senate. The second half of the speech is couched as a proposal, but rapidly becomes a denunciation of both the contents and the methods of Antonius' recent legislative activity and of the cooperation of the presiding consul Dolabella in this. On 19 September, Antonius delivered a counterattack in the senate, in which he claimed that Cicero had been behind the plot to kill Caesar. Cicero composed an answer to Antonius, which embodied the most powerful invective of his that survives — the Second Philippic. The last surviving letters to Atticus and the period of remaining Philippics are discussed.
Art · Cicero · Denunciation · Invective · Literature · Political science · Politics · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |