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INTRODUCING CICERO pro archia

INTRODUCING CICERO pro archia. The young Cicero, reading (Vincenzo Foppa ; c. 1464 . LATE REPUBLICAN AND AUGUSTAN AUTHORS. A fuller timeline: http:// prezi.com /lg2ryxvudqzw/timeline-of- latin -authors-and-roman-history/.

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INTRODUCING CICERO pro archia

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  1. INTRODUCING CICERO pro archia The young Cicero, reading (Vincenzo Foppa; c. 1464

  2. LATE REPUBLICAN AND AUGUSTAN AUTHORS A fuller timeline: http://prezi.com/lg2ryxvudqzw/timeline-of-latin-authors-and-roman-history/

  3. a fragment from Livy’s lost books:CICERO’S LAST DAYS (43 BCE) M. Cicero, pro certehabens, —id quod erat— non Antonio eripi se posse, primum in Tusculanum fugit; inde in Formianum, utabCaietanavemconscensurus, proficiscitur. (fr. 50 = Oxford Latin Reader p. 54) So-called Tomba di Cicerone, Formia

  4. Catullus on cicero 49. ad Marcum TulliumCiceronem DISERTISSIME Romulinepotum, quotsuntquotquefuere, MarceTulli, quotque post aliiserunt in annis, gratiastibimaximas Catullus agitpessimusomniumpoeta, tantopessimusomniumpoeta, quantotuoptimusomniumpatronus.

  5. cicero on clodia(lesbia?) • Pro Caelio 18: • Reprehendistis (Caelium), a patre quod semigrarit. … • Quo loco possum dicere id, quod virclarissimus, M. Crassus, cum de adventuregisPtolemaeiquereretur, paulo ante dixit: • Utinam ne in nemorePelio—

  6. cicero on clodia(cont.) Ac longiusquidemmihicontexere hoc carmenliceret: Nam numquam era errans hancmolestiamnobisexhiberet Medea animoaegra, amore saevosaucia. Sic enim, iudices, reperietis, quod, cum ad id loci venero, ostendam, hancPalatinamMedeammigrationemquehancadulescenticausamsivemalorumomniumsivepotiussermonumfuisse.

  7. CICERO’S LIFE OF LETTERS POEMS (CARMINA) •autobiographic (De consulatusuo) • scientific(Aratea)

  8. CICERO’S LETTERS:Historiacontexta Cornelius Nepos on Cicero and Atticus’ correspondence (Atticus 16.3–4): • LETTERS (EPISTULAE) • • Ad Familiares • • Ad Atticum

  9. Cicero’s focus on sELF-IMAGE Cicero’s plea to the historian L. Lucceius (Ad familiares 5.12): ōfortūnātamnātammēconsuleRōmam! (De consulatusuo)

  10. cicero’s style: an ancient assessment Quintilian, An orator’s education 10.105, 112

  11. cicero’s style: three goals of speaking Itaomnis ratio dicenditribus ad persuadendumrebusestnixa: 1. utprobemusveraesse, quae defendimus; 2. utconciliemuseosnobis, qui audiunt; 3. utanimoseorum, adquemcumquecausapostulabitmotum, vocemus. DOCĒRE DELECTĀRE MOVĒRE NB—This sentence is itself a good example of the “Ciceronian period” (peri-odos, “circuitous path”). Note especially the “rising tricolon” and deferral of the final verb.

  12. cicero’s STYLE:THREE “CICERONIAN PERIODS” REFERRING TO ROMULUS

  13. (De republica 2.1) cicero’s STYLE:THREE “CICERONIAN PERIODS” REFERRING TO ROMULUS

  14. cicero’s STYLE:THREE “CICERONIAN PERIODS” REFERRING TO ROMULUS

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