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    The Catiline Conspiracy

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    Sallust‚ Cicero and the Catiline Conspiracy Both the histories of Sallust and the orations of Cicero can be considered literary works‚ to a degree. The War With Catiline‚ by Sallust and The First Speech Against Lucius Sergius Catilina‚ by Cicero‚ both contain excellent examples of writings from the age of the great Roman Empire. Although both are fantastic pieces depicting a time of tragedy‚ the Catiline Conspiracy against Rome‚ and they both think Catiline as evil‚ the two are also different

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    treason and enemies are defendable. Cicero employs a number of methods to achieve his purpose. His use of attributing human qualities to an object or abstraction and creating images through his detailed words provided by his statement about evil expands on achieving his message in his speech in the Roman Senate in 58 B.C. Cicero begins by saying‚ “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” In his opening‚ Cicero expresses that we can live with

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    domestic life by using Cicero as an example of what ‘ordinary’ life was like for the Romans. Cicero was not an average Roman citizen‚ but his numerous letters provide one of the few comprehensive looks at the private and domestic life of a Roman. In one letter‚ Cicero describes his hosting of Caesar and company; here‚ being a wealthy owner of a villa forced him to provide food and lodging for Caesar and his over 2000 soldiers and civilians. A decent showing as host was helpful to Cicero in maintaining friendly

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    Cicero also makes use of storytelling‚ just as a tragedian would‚ in Pro Rabirio Postumo‚ and that would have held the audience’s rapt attention. The storytelling would have interacted with the emotions that Cicero had cultivated‚ and would have even provided Cicero with more emotions from the crowd that he could use to his advantage. In his first bout of storytelling‚ Cicero compares Postumus to Scipio and other famous Roman men in order to show that “fall[ing] through imprudence” was just a symptom

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    another one of Obama’s actions. This speech is a modern American version of Cicero’s In Catilinam‚ a speech which was uttered by Cicero against the traitor Catiline who planned to overthrow Rome and seize control. Cruz only made use of the first fourth of the first in a group of three speeches‚ since he only needed that mch to make his point and as everyone knows‚ Cicero is extremely long winded. Ted did not change much‚ only adding two or three sentences and making the language more inclusive as

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    Pompey the Great

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    will attempt to determine how much his success relied on his personal characteristics or because of his he was able achieve his successes due to his personal attributes or because of his political relations with noblemen such as Sulla‚ Caesar and Cicero. While Pompey’s family was extremely wealthy it was not one of the ancient families that dominated Roman politics. Pompey’s family was relatively from the plebeian rather than the patrician class; Pompey’s father Strabo was the first of his family

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    Catullus One

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    Cited: Catullus. The Poems of Catullus Trans. Charles Martin. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. Print. Cicero. Cicero ’s Letters to Friends Letters 41-45

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    Cicero HSM 311 Ethics & Homeland Security Instructor: 6/19/11 Cicero wrote a great extent on his concept of a Just War‚ yet his theory can be summarized into three simple rules. The first condition for a just war as proposed by Cicero is that there must be a valid or just cause. Cicero believed that a just cause includes the defense of honor as well as the restoration or upholding of peace. In other words‚ if ones

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    Caesar uses these verbs to emphasize how diligent the Romans are. He then uses anaphora‚ repeating “non‚ aegrīs‚ non vulneratīs facultas quietis datur” (lines 3‚ 4.) Not even sickness or wounds would stop the Romans from preparing. Caesar even uses Cicero as an example‚ stating

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    elements‚ each of which contributes the dramatic appeal of the scene immensely. Shakespeare seems to have focused on four main elements that have been stressed upon throughout the scene‚ but it has impacted hugely on the conversation between Casca and Cicero. Due to the play being written and first performed in the Elizabethan Era‚ a huge amount of supernatural elements have been used here. Supernatural occurrences were usually linked to bad omens or unholy oncomings‚ and Shakespeare has emphasized

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