Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements		1

Introduction		3
1.	Contexts and Paratexts	9
2.	The Second Philippic as a Rhetorical Artifact – and Invective Oratory	23
3.	Why Read Cicero’s Second Philippic Today?	39

Text		43

Commentary		129
§ 44	A Glance at Teenage Antony: Insolvent, Transgendered, Pimped, and Groomed	131
§ 45	Desire and Domesticity: Antony’s Escapades as Curio’s Toy-Boy	150
§ 46	Family Therapy: Cicero as Counselor	160
§ 47	Hitting ‘Fast-Forward’, or: How to Pull Off a Praeteritio	166
§ 48	Antony Adrift	175
§ 49	Credit for Murder	184
§ 50	With Caesar in Gaul: Profligacy and Profiteering	193
§ 78	Caesar’s Approach to HR, or Why Antony Has What it Takes	202
§ 79	The Art of Nepotism	210
§ 80	Antony Augur, Addled and Addling	218
§ 81	Compounding Ignorance through Impudence	225
§ 82	Antony Galloping after Caesar Only to Hold his Horses	233
§ 83	Antony’s Fake Auspices	238
§ 84	On to the Lupercalia…	245
§ 85	Vive le roi! Le roi est mort	254
§ 86	Antony as Willing Slave and Would-Be King-Maker	262
§ 87	Historical Precedent Demands Antony’s Instant Execution	267
§ 88	Antony on the Ides of March	274
§ 89	No Compromise with a Public Enemy!	279
§ 90	Antony’s Finest Hour	287
§ 91	Antony as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	291
§ 92	Selling the Empire	305
§ 100	Further Forgeries and a Veteran Foundation	310
§ 101	Revels and Remunerations	316
§ 102	Antony Colonized a Colony!	323
§ 103	Antony’s Enrichment Activities	328
§ 104	Animal House	335
§ 105	Animal House: The Sequel	340
§ 106	Antony Cocooned	343
§ 107	Symbolic Strutting after Caesar	348
§ 108	Swords Galore, or: Antony’s Return to Rome	357
§ 109	Playing Fast and Loose with Caesar’s Legislation	365
§ 110	Caesar: Dead Duck or Deified Dictator?	372
§ 111	A Final Look at Antony’s Illoquence	382
§ 112	The Senate Under Armour	387
§ 113	The Res Publica Has Watchers!	392
§ 114	Caesar’s Assassination: A Deed of Unprecedented Exemplarity	406
§ 115	Looking for the Taste of (Genuine) Glory…	418
§ 116	Caesar You Are Not!	426
§ 117	Once Burnt Lesson Learnt!	444
§ 118	Here I Stand. I Can Do Naught Else	447
§ 119	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!	452

Bibliography		457
1.	On-line Resources	457
2.	Secondary Literature	458