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 CXLV - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Episode CXLIV - Ulpian
Episode CXLIII - Damnatio Memoriae
Episode CXLII - Deification
Podcast Announcement - Raising Standards
Episode CXLI - Translating Suetonius
Episode CXL - A Ridiculous Waste of Time (Severus Alexander IV)
Episode CXXXIX - A Fish in a Net (Severus Alexander III)
Episode CXXXVIII - Rise of the Sasanian Empire (Severus Alexander II)
Episode CXXXVII - Mother Knows Best (Severus Alexander I)
Episode CXXXVI - Spartacus (1960)
Episode CXXXV - Lupercalia
Episode CXXXIV - Roman Health and Medicine
Episode CXXXIII - Anthology of Interest II
Episode CXXXII - Q and A V
Episode CXXXI - Champions of the People (Gracchi IV)
Episode CXXX - Unpopular Reforms (Gracchi III)
Episode CXXIX - Tiberius Gracchus and the Landless Masses (Gracchi II)
Episode CXXVIII - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (Gracchi I)
Episode CXXVII - Augustus: The Making of an Emperor (Live in Melbourne)
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