After the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, Mark Antony took control of Rome. Before the end of the year Cicero had taken on the leadership of the opposition in the Senate to Antony and his policies. The speeches made by Cicero against Antony, later published under the title Philippics, mounted a sustained attack on the way Antony exercised and abused his position of power.
As historical sources the Philippics were often neglected and disparaged during the 20th century, but they have recently attracted renewed scholarly interest for their political significance and as models of Roman and especially senatorial oratory.
The time when the speeches were delivered coincided with the early public career of the future emperor Augustus. Many of the ideas and much of the political vocabulary of the Philippics continued to resonate in the cultural life and imperial ideology of the Augustan principate.
This volume collects papers by a series of specialists in the field of Ciceronian studies who have set out to reconsider the historical impact of the Philippic speeches and their later significance in Roman culture.
Delivered at a crucial point in the painful political transition from the Roman Republic to the imperial system, the Philippics are the final speeches of Rome’s greatest orator at the peak of his powers. He paid the price for the political stance he took in the speeches with his life. |
Contents
Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology
Tom Stevenson and Marcus Wilson 1
Publishing the Philippics, 44-43BC
Douglas Kelly 22
Cicero Versus Antonius: On the structure and construction of the Philippic collection
Gesine Manuwald 39
Phantoms in the Philippics: Catiline, Clodius and Antonian parallels Richard Evans 62
Cicero’s Tenth and Eleventh Philippics: The Republican advance in the East
Martin Drum 82
Tyrants, Kings and Fathers in the Philippics
Tom Stevenson 95
Clementia and Beneficium in the Second Philippic
Natalie Angel 114
The Second Philippic as a Source for Aristocratic Values
Roger A Pitcher 131
Libertas in the Philippics
Eleanor Cowan 140
A Philosophy of Legitimacy in Cicero’s Philippics
Emily Christian 153
Cicero, Antony and the Senatus Consultum Ultimum in the Second Philippic
Julian Larsen 168
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Nimium Felix: Caesar’s Felicitas and Cicero’s Philippics
Kathryn Welch 181
Greek Ethics and Roman Statesmen: De Officiis and the Philippics
A M Stone 214
O singulari prodigium: Ciceronian invective as a religious expiation
Anthony Corbeill 240
Finessing Failure: The Sixth Philippic
Catherine Steel 255
The Encomium of Brutus in Philippic Ten
Tia Dawes 266
The Rhetorical Design and the Success of the Twelfth Philippic
Jon Hall 282
Your Writings or Your Life: Cicero’s Philippics and declamation
Marcus Wilson 305
Bibliography 335
Index of Ancient Names 362
Index of Latin Words and Concepts 367
General Index 371 |
