Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119

Ingo Gildenhard

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Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war.

Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death.

This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence.

Sujets

• GCE Advanced Level
• Philippic
• Rhetoric
• Cicero
• Commentary
• Rome

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• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 03 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783745920
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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CICERO, PHILIPPIC 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119


Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119
Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary
Ingo Gildenhard






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To Vivi and in memory of Lucio (3.6.1932–23.8.2016)


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


Preface and Acknowledgements


© Ingo Gildenhard, CC BY 4.0 https://doi.org/ 10.11647/OBP.0156.01
The sections from Philippic 2 included in the present textbook will serve as one of the set texts for the OCR Latin AS and A Level specifications from 2019–2021. It is a challenging pick, not least since Cicero serves up a smorgasbord of topics in his invective assault on Antony: he finds occasion to weigh in on modes of fornication, electoral procedures, Rome’s civic religion, political incidents and developments before and after the assassination of Caesar, and many other matters, all the while deploying a wide range of generic and discursive registers. Luckily, the availability of excellent resources facilitates engagement with the speech, including the commentaries by Mayor (1861), Denniston (1926), Ramsey (2003), and Manuwald (2007) (on Philippics 3–11, but of relevance to the entire corpus), the bilingual edition with commentary by Lacey (1986), and the translation by Shackleton Bailey (1986).
As in earlier commentaries, I have tended to summarize and cite (also at length), rather than refer to, primary sources and pieces of secondary literature: for my primary audience (students, but also teachers, in secondary education), a ‘see e.g.’ or a ‘cf.’ followed by a reference is at best tantalizing, but most likely just annoying or pointless. Gestures to further readings are not entirely absent, however, since I have tried to render this commentary useful also for audiences who have more time at their hand and can get access to scholarly literature, such as students wishing to do an EPQ. The commentary tries to cater for various backgrounds: it contains detailed explication of grammar and syntax, bearing in mind students who study the text on their own; and it tries to convey a flavour of Latin studies at undergraduate level for those who are thinking of pursuing classical studies at university.
Unless otherwise indicated, texts and translations of Greek and Latin texts are (based on) those in the Loeb Classical Library.
Along with my other volumes in this series, this one would not have been possible without the gallant support of John Henderson, who kindly explained to me what Philippic 2 is all about while turning around an unusually unwieldy draft with his customary speed and bountiful comments, now all incorporated in the commentary, and Alessandra Tosi, who has shepherded this project from first idea to final product with much-appreciated patience and enthusiasm. I am also grateful to Liam Etheridge for his nifty copy-editing, Bianca Gualandi for her magically swift generation of the proofs, and King’s, my College at the University of Cambridge, which has generously contributed a grant to help cover the cost of publication.
Dedico questo libro ai miei suoceri, Vivi e Lucio.


Introduction


© Ingo Gildenhard, CC BY 4.0 https://doi.org/ 10.11647/OBP.0156.02
When one day the head of Cicero was brought to them [sc. Antony and his wife Fulvia] — he had been overtaken and slain in flight —, Antony uttered many bitter reproaches against it and then ordered it to be exposed on the speakers-platform more prominently than the rest, in order that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard declaiming against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off. And Fulvia took the head into her hands b