T. Stevenson, M. Wilson (dir.), Cicero's Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology

Tom Stevenson, Marcus Wilson (dir.), Cicero's Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology,  Auckland, N.Z.:  Polygraphia, coll. "Prudentia" 37-38,  2008.  Pp. x, 374. ISBN 9781877332562.   NZ $80.00 (pb).   Recension par John Henderson (King's College, Cambridge) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.03.16.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

After the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, Mark Antony took control of Rome. Before the end of the year Cicero had taken on the leadership of the opposition in the Senate to Antony and his policies. The speeches made by Cicero against Antony, later published under the title Philippics, mounted a sustained attack on the way Antony exercised and abused his position of power.

As historical sources the Philippics were often neglected and disparaged during the 20th century, but they have recently attracted renewed scholarly interest for their political significance and as models of Roman and especially senatorial oratory.

The time when the speeches were delivered coincided with the early public career of the future emperor Augustus. Many of the ideas and much of the political vocabulary of the Philippics continued to resonate in the cultural life and imperial ideology of the Augustan principate.

This volume collects papers by a series of specialists in the field of Ciceronian studies who have set out to reconsider the historical impact of the Philippic speeches and their later significance in Roman culture.

Delivered at a crucial point in the painful political transition from the Roman Republic to the imperial system, the Philippics are the final speeches of Rome's greatest orator at the peak of his powers. He paid the price for the political stance he took in the speeches with his life. 

Table des matières:

1 Tom Stevenson and Marcus Wilson, Cicero's Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology, 1-21
2 Douglas Kelly, Publishing the Philippics, 44-43 BC, 22-38
3 Gesine Manuwald, Cicero Versus Antonius: On the Structure and Construction of the Philippic Collection, 39-61
4 Richard Evans, Phantoms in the Philippics: Catiline, Clodius and Antonian Parallels, 62-81
5 Martin Drum, Cicero's Tenth and Eleventh Philippics: The Republican Advance in the East, 82-94
6 Tom Stevenson, Tyrants, Kings and Fathers in the Philippics, 95-113
7 Natalie Angel, Clementia and Beneficium in the Second Philippic, 114-30
8 Roger A. Pitcher, The Second Philippic as a Source of Aristocratic Values, 131-39
9 Eleanor Cowan, Libertas in the Philippics, 140-52
10 Emily Christian, A Philosophy of Legitimacy in Cicero's Philippics, 153-67
11 Julian Larsen, Cicero, Antony and the Senatus Consultum Ultimum in the Second Philippic, 168-80
12 Kathryn Welch, Nimium felix: Caesar's Felicitas and Cicero's Philippics, 181-213
13 A.M. Stone, Greek Ethics and Roman Statesmen: De Officiis and the Philippics, 214-39
14 Anthony Corbeill, O Singulare Prodigium: Ciceronian Invective as a Religious Expiation, 240-54
15 Catherine Steel, Finessing Failure: the Sixth Philippic, 255-65
16 Tia Dawes, The Encomium of Brutus in Philippic Ten, 266-81
17 Jon Hall, The Rhetorical Design and the Success of the Twelfth Philippic, 282-304
18 Marcus Wilson, Your Writings or Your Life: Cicero's Philippics and Declamation, 305-34