Cicero

3 units

Cicero's Philippics, speeches denouncing Mark Antony after the death of Julius Caesar, are masterpieces of invective from one of Rome's greatest orators. We will read Philippics 1 and 2, paying particular attention to: Cicero's language and style; rhetorical genre; and Cicero's assassination of Antony's character in the political and cultural context of the 1st century BCE.