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Philippics

(fĭlĭp`ĭks), series of four denunciations of Philip IIPhilip II,
382–336 B.C., king of Macedon (359–336 B.C.), son of Amyntas II. While a hostage in Thebes (367–364), he gained much knowledge of Greece and its people.
..... Click the link for more information. of Macedon by DemosthenesDemosthenes
, 384?–322 B.C., Greek orator, generally considered the greatest of the Greek orators. He was a pupil of Isaeus, and—although the story of his putting pebbles in his mouth to improve his voice is only a legend—he seems to have been forced to
..... Click the link for more information. . The scathing polemics of CiceroCicero
(Marcus Tullius Cicero) or Tully,
106 B.C.–43 B.C., greatest Roman orator, famous also as a politician and a philosopher. Life

Cicero studied law and philosophy at Rome, Athens, and Rhodes.
..... Click the link for more information. against Marc AntonyAntony
or Marc Antony,
Lat. Marcus Antonius, c.83 B.C.–30 B.C., Roman politican and soldier. He was of a distinguished family; his mother was a relative of Julius Caesar.
..... Click the link for more information. are also called Philippics.

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Can you tell me why an angry speech is called a philippic? Does it have anything to do with the name Philip?

Going off on a rant

-- (2009), Cicero: Philippics, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London.

Cicero's Brutus: a history of rhetoric or a history of politics?

Hisjuxtaposition of philippics with love poems to you in this book isstriking.

The love song of James Arlington Wright: an essay and interview with Annie Wright

(23) Accordingly, Andrassy's predictable philippics against Russia, and his demands for a rejection of the Russian circular followed by a joint diplomatic offensive aimed at enforcing the Treaty of Paris, fell on deaf ears.

The sensitivities of 'small, backward nations': Austria-Hungary, Serbia, and the regulation of the Danube 1870-71.)

Among the topics are oratory and the self-construction of the republican aristocrat, historical exempla as tools of praise and blame in Ciceronian oratory, restraint and outbursts of orators in Roman contiones, invective identities in Pro Caelio, and the function of praise and blame in Philippics. The 13 papers are from a November 2006 conference at the University of St.

Praise and blame in Roman Republican rhetoric

Memoirs, official publications, and philippics appeared in the country soon after the war ended.

Bulgaria in the First World War

(55.) NEFF, supra note I, at 18 (quoting Cicero, Philippics, at 143).

The status of private military contractors under International Humanitarian Law

Pocock describes, philippics against Hamilton's finance policies read as if "the ghosts of Swift and Bolingbroke stalk on every page" (531).

Profligate gleaning and the textual economies of Judith Sargent Murray

(38) Id at 198 (quoting Demosthenes, Against Leptines, in OLYNTHIACS, PHILIPPICS, MINOR PUBLIC SPEECHES, SPEECH AGAINST LEPTINES, XX [section] 147, at 589 (J.H.

Double take: evaluating double jeopardy reform

Adams, praising his "sonnets and unrhymed philippics" (132).

The promising Jewish poetry of a Pariah: Samuel Roth

(26) In depicting Marius as the murderer of Antonins, Plutarch contradicts Cicero who twice blames Cinna for having Antonius killed instead of Marius (Tuscuian Disputatious 5.19.55) and (Philippics. 1.14.34).

Pouring the wrong wax in the literary mold: Plutarch's Mdrius and Homer's Odyssey

To be sure, Leopardi was influenced by such texts as Cicero's Philippics, Machiavelli's Discorsi (a text whose importance for Leopardi has not yet been sufficiently underlined), and, obviously enough, Montesquieu's Grandeur et decadence des Romains--as is apparent from the Zibaldone.

History and pastoral in the structure of Leopardi's Canti

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