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).
Interlude - Reading List I
Episode XV - The Assassination of Caligula
Episode XIV - The Madness of Caligula
Episode XIII - The Rule of Caligula
Episode XII - Tiberius the Gloomiest of Men
Episode XI - Tiberius the Reluctant Emperor
Episode X - The Augustan Succession
Interlude - Pax Romana
Episode IX - Augustan Rome
Episode VIII - The Augustan Revolution
Interlude - What is an Emperor?
Episode VII - The Legacy of Caesar
Episode VI - The Death of Caesar
Episode V - Caesar and Civil War
Episode IV - Caesar's Triumph
Episode III - Caesar and Gaul
Episode II - Caesar the Politician
Episode I - The Early Years of Caesar
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