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 LXVII - Heir and a Spare
Episode LXVI - Fronto
Episode LXV - Antoninus Pius
Episode LXIV - Q and A III
Episode LXIII - Women Poets
Episode LXII - Juvenal
Interlude - The Bronze Head of Augustus
Episode LXI - Gladiator (2000)
Episode LX - Cleopatra (Live at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne)
Episode LIX - Martial
Episode LVIII - Tacitus
Episode LVII - Little Soul, Little Wanderer, Little Charmer
Interlude - The Singing Colossus of Memnon
Episode LVI - May His Bones Rot
Episode LV - What Hadrian Loves Best
Episode LIV - There and Back Again (An Emperor's Tale)
Episode LIII - Rome Welcomes Hadrian
Episode LII - Hadrian the Little Greek
Episode LI - Frontinus
Episode L - Historia Augusta
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