Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is
remembered above all others. Cicero stands out, however, not only
because of his fame, but also because his murder included a unique
addition to the customary decapitation. For his corpse was deprived
not only of its head, but also of its right hand. Plutarch tells us
why Mark Antony wanted the hand that wrote the Philippics. But how
did it come to pass that Rome's greatest orator could be so hated
for the speeches he had written? Charting a course through Cicero's
celebrated career, Shane Butler examines two principal
relationships between speech and writing in Roman oratory: the use
of documentary evidence by orators and the 'publication' of both
delivered and undelivered speeches. He presents this fascinating
theory that the success of Rome's greatest orator depended as much
on writing as speaking; he also argues against the conventional
wisdom that Rome was an 'oral society', in which writing was rare
and served only practical, secondary purposes.
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