Cicero

  • Catiline: Victim or Villain?

    Speaking of Cicero and Catiline (see next post), my spiders brought back an article from something called Student Pulse, which is some sort of online student journal, which includes this piece (typo in the title): Lucius Sergius Catalina: Villain or Victim? The Famed Cicero as a Violent Aggressor … it’s not bad as far as…

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  • … in addition to our (and NT Blog’s) blogiversary, September 2 (I keep meaning to mention it) is the anniversary of Cicero’s launching of the Second Philippic … fortunately the OUP blog remembered (although they somewhat incongruently illustrate it with Maccari’s Cicero Denouncing Catiline): To let you appreciate what sort of consul he professes himself…

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