Cicero's Catilinarians Berry D. H.
Cicero's Catilinarians Berry D. H. The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline…
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Cicero's Catilinarians Berry D. H.
The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he substantially revised them before publication, rewriting some passages and adding others, all with the aim of justifying the action he had taken against the conspirators and memorializing his own role in the suppression of the conspiracy. Or are they?
Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? How, then, should we interpret these speeches as literature? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time?
In this, the first book-length discussion of these famous speeches, D. H. Berry clarifies what the speeches actually are and explains how he believes we should approach them. In addition,