{"id":91617,"date":"2025-01-13T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91617"},"modified":"2024-09-28T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T21:23:28","slug":"the-writings-of-cicero-cicero-and-the-power-of-the-spoken-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/the-writings-of-cicero-cicero-and-the-power-of-the-spoken-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writings of Cicero &#8211; Cicero and the Power of the Spoken Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6md9pqWHlnU?si=w43jqojxp9aVw3f_\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>seangabb<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 25 Aug 2024<\/p>\n<p>This lecture is taken from a course I delivered in July 2024 on the Life and Writings of Cicero. It covers these topics:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Introduction \u2013 00:00:00<br \/>\n\u2022 The Deficiencies of Modern Oratory \u2013 00:01:20<br \/>\n\u2022 The Greeks and Oratory \u2013 00:06:38<br \/>\n\u2022 Athens: Government by Lottery and Referendum \u2013 00:08:10<br \/>\n\u2022 The Power of the Greek Language \u2013 00:17:41<br \/>\n\u2022 The General Illiteracy of the Ancients \u2013 00:21:06<br \/>\n\u2022 Greek Oratory: Lysias, Gorgias, Demosthenes \u2013 00:28:38<br \/>\n\u2022 Macaulay as Speaker \u2013 00:34:44<br \/>\n\u2022 Attic and Asianic Oratory \u2013 00:36:56<br \/>\n\u2022 The Greek Conquest of Rome \u2013 00:39:26<br \/>\n\u2022 Roman Oratory \u2013 00:43:23<br \/>\n\u2022 Cicero: Early Life \u2013 00:43:23<br \/>\n\u2022 Cicero in Greece \u2013 00:46:03<br \/>\n\u2022 Cicero: Early Legal Career \u2013 00:46:03<br \/>\n\u2022 Cicero: Defence of Roscius \u2013 00:47:49<br \/>\n\u2022 Cicero as Orator (Sean Reads Latin) \u2013 00:54:45<br \/>\n\u2022 Government of the Roman Empire \u2013 01:01:16<br \/>\n\u2022 The Government of Sicily \u2013 01:03:58<br \/>\n\u2022 Verres in Sicily \u2013 01:06:54<br \/>\n\u2022 The Prosecution of Verres \u2013 01:11:20<br \/>\n\u2022 Reading List \u2013 01:24:28<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you have enjoyed this lecture, its author might enjoy a bag of coffee, or some other small token of esteem: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTZ6TW1mTmp4MjhRRFRMdkFLS3J5UEppdTk1d3xBQ3Jtc0tsTjBNdXdQOXZNUVZEVXFpNFYyNWtTVFA4QVJ3dU9EX2N2X2g5R1UxYk4xSmZ2ZTJuaEx2aDhiU3dIU0Z0NnZDMkxxU0ZvM004S0pEZlJfLVpwLVhlR3ZOSVpscnA3SFdxS2NvUXBsUjE3czcwSkNONA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fhz%2Fwishlist%2Fls%2F3HSH7EF410352%3Fref_%3Dwl_share&#038;v=6md9pqWHlnU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/hz\/wishlist\/&#8230;<\/a> (The coffee percolator would be particularly welcome as the author&#8217;s wife has banned him from buying it himself) Books by Sean Gabb: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFh5ZUVLRlBVQ05Lc01LZ2luNWFGelVacGwzUXxBQ3Jtc0tub2VyaXdGczRqUk9RNTZmSGN5LUR3Vm5YaUVqUENMWVZ3dl9vQ3hRNkhsVDdJQWxmSHNOM19qcGNLZ1R0ZjlpZHFrdEo3QmUxSkJDckRyOUlVY3JvOXBqSF92NFBTR3FlbXRhVjd3NGsyVGpvaktnQQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fkindle-dbs%2Fentity%2Fauthor%2FB0034Q418E%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26node%3D266239%26offset%3D0%26pageSize%3D12%26searchAlias%3Dstripbooks%26sort%3Dauthor-sidecar-rank%26page%3D1%26langFilter%3Ddefault%23formatSelectorHeader&#038;v=6md9pqWHlnU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/kindle-dbs\/e&#8230;<\/a> His historical novels (under the pen name &#8220;Richard Blake&#8221;): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVB3ZUVrRmo2aGd4Q09UVEJsTXU1U05BNUowZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttRFR4YU03Y1lvSTNiZTBuTjFsQ1liUGl3RHgwNTZoT2ZHcEdqVHNYX0s4endFMlJVTURBdEUwbDVnUTRfalJEWnpSdmp3eFFjenI5Y3FyTHV2a0JROWlnZ01GRDRySWVVYzdfYXJfVkZpX29LX3JISQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FRichard-Blake%2Fe%2FB005I2B5PO&#038;v=6md9pqWHlnU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Richard-Blak&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seangabb Published 25 Aug 2024 This lecture is taken from a course I delivered in July 2024 on the Life and Writings of Cicero. It covers these topics: \u2022 Introduction \u2013 00:00:00 \u2022 The Deficiencies of Modern Oratory \u2013 00:01:20 \u2022 The Greeks and Oratory \u2013 00:06:38 \u2022 Athens: Government by Lottery and Referendum \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,9],"tags":[1527,732,1391,1315,343,766,1345,1468,1216],"class_list":["post-91617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-law","tag-ancientgreece","tag-athens","tag-biography","tag-cicero","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-democracy","tag-romanrepublic","tag-seangabb","tag-sicily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nPH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91617\/revisions\/91618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}