Kagan then moves into
philippic mode, warning, "History is returning.
(33) This pattern continued, as Demosthenes made clear during his First
Philippic in 351 BCE: "[Athens'] great festivals were always on time, but military support to besieged allies was always too little too late!" (34) He concluded by underlining the mutual distrust between Greek states: "we all delay, and are weak, and cast suspicious glances at our neighbors, distrusting each other rather than the man who is wronging us all [Philip]." (35) Ironically, Athens had a history of sending ambassadors to criticize Sparta and its warlike culture.
AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS, OTHERWISE CALLED THE FIFTH
PHILIPPIC. (44-43
MWO offers this as a synonym (along with jeremiad and
philippic, both of which I fear will soon have fallen out of use altogether) but to me a rant suggests something less carefully considered and argued than a diatribe.
24 CE); and Justin's epitome (second century CE?) of the lost
Philippic Histories of Pompeius Trogus (first century BCE).
Can you tell me why an angry speech is called a
philippic? Does it have anything to do with the name Philip?
The only thing to add to SV's latest online
philippic is to remember these comments sprung forth from a guy with real class--and apparently one who doesn't own a mirror.
Which Roman military leader was criticised by Cicero in his
Philippic speeches?
The new edition retains Pericles's Funeral Oration, Lysias's On the Refusal of a Pension to an Invalid, Plato's Apology, Gorgias's Encomium to Helen, Cicero's first oration against Catiline, and Demosthenes' first
Philippic. The fourth edition eliminates Isocrates's Areopagiticus and Cicero's delightful Defense of the Poet Archias.
One part of Twain's
philippic, less remarked but more thought provoking, is his contingent resentment that literature was constrained by taste and convention in a way that art was not.
Moore's idiosyncratic book was a
philippic against Western monotheism that touched only briefly on the dangers of Enlightenment-revolutionary "purism." For 18th-century Russia, where industrial capitalism had a mere toehold, where liberalism had not yet developed, where the social sciences had not taken root (and, it should be noted, the classical worldview described by Foucault also had little purchase), where Western-inspired Enlightenment ideas were not universally embranced even by the educated elite, and where the French Revolution found almost no would-be emulators, the 20th-century critique of the Enlightenment seems misdirected.