Cicero as evidence: a historian's companion

Abbreviations

Part A. Reading Cicero

I. Reading Events

II. The Texts of the Speeches

III. Truth and Fiction in the Speeches

Part B. Reading Oratory

IV. Cicero's Forensic Baptism: The Pro Quinctio

V. More Problems of Partnership: The Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo

VI. Property and Violence: The Pro Tullio and Pro Caecina

VII. Cicero and the Citadel of the Allies

VIII. The Defence of Good Men (1): The Other Side of the Quaestio de Repetundis

IX. The Defence of Good Men (2): Treason and Other Crimes against the Roman People

Part C. History in Speeches and Letters

X. Candidature and Consulship

XI. The Aftermath of the Consulship

XII. The Gang of Three and Clodius

XIII. After the Return

Part D. History and Ideas

XIV. The Search for Otium

XV. The Governor and the Approach of Civil War

XVI. The Mediator and the Partisans

XVII. Living with Dictatorship

XVIII. The Ides of March and After

XIX. Answering the Republic's Call

XX. Epilogue

Appendices

1. The Pro Sexto Roscio

2. The De Imperio Gnaei Pompeii (Pro Lege Manilia)

3. Further Notes on the Pro Caelio

4. The End of Caesar's Command in Gaul

5. The De Legibus

6. The De Senectute

7. Events after Caesar's Murder

8. Antonius' Letter (CIC. Phil. 13. 22 ff.)

Bibliography

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