Cicero as Evidence: A Historian's Companion

Cicero as Evidence: A Historian\'s Companion (2008)\r......Page 1
ISBN: 9780199216444......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
--> Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Part A - Reading Cicero......Page 12
TEXTS AS EVENTS......Page 14
Letters as Events......Page 15
Speeches as Events......Page 19
PUBLISHED, BUT NOT AS IT WAS SPOKEN......Page 26
THE PROBLEM OF THE FORENSIC SPEECHES......Page 30
III - Truth and Fiction in the Speeches......Page 44
Part B - Reading Oratory......Page 52
PROOEMIUM: HOW CICERO CAME TO TAKE THE CASE......Page 54
THE NATURE OF THE CASE......Page 56
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SPEECH......Page 57
THE ORIGIN OF THE DISPUTE......Page 58
VADIMONIA AND ACTIONES......Page 63
THE CONTINUATION OF THE DISPUTE......Page 66
THE RELATIVE STRENGTHS OF THE CASES......Page 68
V - More Problems of Partnership: The Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo......Page 71
RECONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE......Page 72
THE LEGAL ARGUMENT......Page 74
VI - Property and Violence: The Pro Tullio and Pro Caecina......Page 79
PRO TULLIO......Page 80
PRO CAECINA: THE FORM OF LITIGATION......Page 84
The Backgound to the Lawsuit......Page 85
The Issue......Page 87
The Advocates’ Strategies......Page 90
A NOTE ON THE DATE OF PRO CAECINA......Page 91
THE COURT AND THE PROSECUTORS......Page 92
THE MOUNTING OF THE PROSECUTION......Page 95
STRATEGY AND TIMING......Page 99
TACTICS......Page 102
THE RHETORIC OF THE SECOND ACTION......Page 105
PRO FONTEIO......Page 112
PRO FLACCO......Page 114
PRO SCAURO......Page 119
IX - The Defence of Good Men (2): Treason and Other Crimes against the Roman People......Page 122
Part C - History in Speeches and Letters......Page 138
CANDIDATURE......Page 140
CONSULSHIP......Page 147
CICERO AND RULLUS......Page 148
THE CATILINARIAN SPEECHES......Page 153
RECRIMINATIONS AND THE RETURN OF POMPEY......Page 160
THE BONA DEA DRAMA......Page 165
THE GENESIS OF CAESAR’S FIRST CONSULSHIP......Page 170
CAESAR’S FIRST CONSULSHIP......Page 178
CLODIUS’ TRIBUNATE AND CICERO’S EXILE......Page 186
XIII - After the Return......Page 194
DEFENDING PROPERTY......Page 196
DEFENDING FRIENDS......Page 200
THE DEFENCE OF OPTIMATES......Page 205
CHANGING COURSE......Page 212
Part D - History and Ideas......Page 224
THE LETTER TO LUCCEIUS......Page 226
THE NEW POLITICAL ALIGNMENT......Page 228
PRO PLANCIO......Page 230
THE LAST LETTER TO SPINTHER......Page 234
DE ORATORE......Page 236
DE RE PUBLICA......Page 243
POMPEY AND THE RES PUBLICA......Page 252
CICERO AND POMPEY: GABINIUS AND THE PRO RABIRIO POSTUMO......Page 257
MILO, CLODIUS AND POMPEY’S THIRD CONSULSHIP......Page 260
THE RELUCTANT GOVERNOR......Page 264
CILICIA......Page 267
CAELIUS, ATTICUS, AND CICERO......Page 278
THE FAILURE OF PEACEMAKING......Page 292
TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE?......Page 297
THE LESSONS OF HISTORY......Page 309
THE RETURN TO ITALY......Page 312
A LITERARY FAREWELL TO THE REPUBLIC......Page 315
THE NEW ORDER......Page 321
HELPING FRIENDS: THE PRO MARCELLO AND PRO LIGARIO......Page 324
PHILOSOPHICAL RETIREMENT......Page 334
THE CLIMAX OF THE DICTATORSHIP......Page 345
THE PASSIONATE SPECTATOR......Page 350
De Natura Deorum, De Divinatione, De Fato......Page 361
THE DE AMICITIA AND CICERO’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH MATIUS......Page 370
Practical Ethics for a Republican: The De OYciis......Page 377
THE FIRST TWO PHILIPPICS......Page 385
ANTONIUS, OCTAVIANUS, AND THE LAST SURVIVING LETTERS TO ATTICUS......Page 393
THE PERIOD OF THE REMAINING PHILIPPICS......Page 396
THE PROCONSULS IN THE WEST......Page 419
THE COMMANDERS IN AFRICA AND THE EAST......Page 425
MARCUS BRUTUS, CICERO, AND OCTAVIANUS......Page 427
CICERO......Page 432
APPENDIX 1 - The Pro Sexto Roscio......Page 436
APPENDIX 2 - The De Imperio Gnaei Pompeii (Pro Lege Manilia)......Page 438
The Charges......Page 441
Caelius......Page 442
The Speech......Page 443
APPENDIX 4 - The End of Caesar’s Command in Gaul......Page 444
APPENDIX 5 - The De Legibus......Page 447
APPENDIX 6 - The De Senectute......Page 449
APPENDIX 7 - Events after Caesar’s Murder......Page 451
Antonius to Hirtius and Caesar......Page 456
Bibliography......Page 459
A. PERSONS......Page 468
B. TECHNICAL TERMS......Page 476
C. STATUTES AND BILLS......Page 477
D. CICERONIAN WRITINGS......Page 478