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 CCIX - A Diminished Rome
Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings
Episode CCVII - The Gallic Empire
Episode CCVI - Rome Crumbles
Episode CCV - Cleopatra Selene
Episode CCIV - Octavian's Illyrian War
Episode CCIII - Augustan Egypt
Episode CCII - The Death of Cleopatra and Antony
Episode CCI - Actium
Episode CC - Cleopatra and Antony (Live in Melbourne)
Episode CXCIX - Sextus Pompeius
Episode CXCVIII - Octavia
Episode CXCVII - The Perusine War
Episode CXCVI - Fulvia
Episode CXCV - Q and A VIII
Episode CXCIV - Sea Monsters in Roman Mythology
Episode CXCIII - The Humiliation of Caesar (Valerian III)
Episode CXCII - The Persecution of Christians (Valerian II)
Episode CXCI - Empire Under Siege (Valerian)
Episode CXC - I, Augustus (with Brian Blessed)
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