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Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

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In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean c...

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Main Authors: Gildenhard, Ingo (Author), Hodgson, Louise (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Book Publishers [2014]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Rhetoric > Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Preface and acknowledgements
  • 2. Introduction: why does the set text matter?
  • 3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid
  • The Only Way is Pompey (§27)
  • The Perfect General, Pompey the Kid, and Mr. Experience (§28)
  • His Excellence (and Excellences) (§29)
  • Witnesses to the Truth! (§30)
  • Pacifying the Pond, or: Pompey and the Pirates (§31)
  • The Pirates of the Mediterranean (§32)
  • Pirates ante portas! (§33)
  • Pompey's Cruise Control (I): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed' (§34)
  • Pompey's Cruise Control (II): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed' (§35)
  • ‘Thou Art More Lovely and More Temperate': Pompey's Soft Sides (§36)
  • SPQR Confidential (§37)
  • Of Locusts and Leeches (§38)
  • Pompey the Peaceful, or: Imperialism with Gloves (§39)
  • No Sight-Seeing or Souvenirs for the Perfect General (§40)
  • Saint Pompey (§41)
  • Peace for our Time (§42)
  • Rumour and Renown: Pompey's auctoritas (§43)
  • Case Study I: The Socio-Economics of Pompey's auctoritas (§44)
  • Case Study II: Pompey's auctoritas and psychological warfare (§45)
  • Auctoritas Supreme (§46)
  • Felicitas, or how not to ‘Sull(a)y' Pompey (§47)
  • The Darling of the Gods (§48)
  • Summing Up (§49)
  • 4. Com mentary
  • 5. Further resources
  • Chronological table: the parallel lives of Pompey and Cicero
  • The speech in summary, or: what a Roman citizen may have heard in the forum
  • Translation of §§ 27-49
  • The protagonists: Cicero – Pompey – Manilius
  • The historical context (the contio, imperial expansion, civil wars, the shadow of Sulla, extraordinary commands)
  • List of rhetorical terms
  • 6. Bibliography

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