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    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


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