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 XC - Herodes Atticus
Episode LXXXIX - A Man the World Could Not Hold
Episode LXXXVIII – Severan Stories II
Episode LXXXVII – Severan Stories I
Episode LXXXVI – Ascent to Greatness, However Steep and Dangerous
Episode LXXXV - Black and White
Episode LXXXIV – The African Emperor
Episode LXXXIII – Didius Julianus
Episode LXXXII - Pertinax
Episode LXXXI - Livy
Episode LXXX - Dio Cassius
Episode LXXIX - Epicureanism
Episode LXXVIII - Borders of the Roman Empire
Announcement: The Status Quo
Episode LXXVII - Such was the End of Commodus
Episode LXXVI - It's Good to be the King
Episode LXXV - Flying Too Close to the Sun
Episode LXXIV - Iron and Rust
Episode LXXIII - From a Kingdom of Gold
Episode LXXII - On Behalf of the State
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