Description
Book SynopsisCicero's great polemic against Antony, a literary masterpiece, is here made available with full translation and notes. The introduction to this edition deals with the historical setting, Roman rhetoric and Cicero's style while the notes are mainly literary, not historical. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.
Trade Review‘His edition of the Second Philippic is accurate and the notes informative.’
JACTTable of ContentsPreface
Introduction:
A. Historical Introduction
B. Cicero’s Speeches and the Rhetorical Tradition (by A. E. Douglas)
C. Features of Cicero’s Style in
Philippics II D. Introduction to the Text and Brief Bibliography
Cicero: Second Philippic Oration
Text and Translation
Notes
Appendix
Index
