This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to
present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second
Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian
corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six months
after the murder of Julius Caesar in March 44 BC, offer a scathing
account of the early years and the rise to power of Mark Antony,
Caesar's chief lieutenant. The period covered by these speeches
(roughly 63-44 BC) is an important one because the Roman state was
in transition from Republic to Empire. The Second Philippic not
only gives us Cicero's assessment of his own political career and
place in Roman history from a perspective late in life, but it also
provides a vivid eyewitness account of how the dominance first of
Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony was shifting the locus of
power from the Senate and Roman aristocracy to a single dynast.
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