As the power struggle in Rome continued and generals waged their war on the battlefield, Cicero took to the floors of the senate, confronting Antony with the greatest weapon in his arsenal: the spoken word. He called his speeches the Philippics, and they were influential in turning the senate against Antony.
Part II of 'The Liberator's War'
Guest: Dr Kathryn Tempest (Reader in Classics and Ancient History, University of Roehampton).
Episode CCXXIX - Indomitable Spirit (The Catiline Conspiracy V)
Episode CCXXIII - The Championship of the Oppressed (The Catiline Conspiracy IV)
Episode CCXXII - A Stolen Election (The Catiline Conspiracy III)
Episode CCXXI - An Entire Farrago (The Catiline Conspiracy II)
Episode CCXX - A Disordered Mind (The Catiline Conspiracy I)
Episode CCXIX - Hispala Faecena and the Bacchanalia Conspiracy
Episode CCXVIII - Martial on the Emperors
Episode CCXVII - Angeronalia
Episode CCXVI - A Roman Haunting in Three Parts
Episode CCXV - The Unconquered Sun
Episode CCXIV - Aurelian, Restorer of the Age
Episode CCXIII - Zenobia
Episode CCXII - Aurelian, the Restorer of the World
Episode CCXI - Claudius Gothicus
Episode CCX - A Lesson in Latin III
Episode CCIX - A Diminished Rome
Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings
Episode CCVII - The Gallic Empire
Episode CCVI - Rome Crumbles
Episode CCV - Cleopatra Selene
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