Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27–49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation
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Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
9781783740772
Contents
1. Preface and acknowledgements
2. Introduction: why does the set text matter?
Scientia militaris (§ 28)
Virtus (§§ 29-42)
Auctoritas (§§ 43-46)
Felicitas (§§ 47-48)
3. Latin text
with study questions
and vocabulary aid
27: The only way is Pompey
28: The Perfect General, Pompey the Kid, and Mr. Experience
29: His Excellence (and Excellences)
30: Witnesses to the Truth!
31: Pacifying the Pond, or: Pompey and the Pirates
33: Pirates ante portas!
34: Pompey’s Cruise Control (I): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed’
35: Pompey’s Cruise Control (II): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed’
36: ‘Thou Art More Lovely and More Temperate’: Pompey’s Soft Sides
37: SPQR Confidential
38: Of Locusts and Leeches
39: Pompey the Peaceful, or: Imperialism with Gloves
40: No Sight-Seeing or Souvenirs for the Perfect General
41: Saint Pompey
42: Peace for our Time
43: Rumour and Renown: Pompey’s auctoritas
44: Case Study I: The Socio-Economics of Pompey’s auctoritas
45: Case Study II: Pompey’s auctoritas and psychological warfare
46: auctoritas Supreme
47: Felicitas, or how not to ‘Sull(a)y’ Pompey
48: The Darling of the Gods
49: Summing Up
4. Commentary
27: The only way is Pompey
28: The Perfect General, Pompey the Kid, and Mr. Experience
29: His Excellence (and Excellences)
30: Witnesses to the Truth!
31: Pacifying the Pond, or: Pompey and the Pirates
32: The Pirates of the Mediterranean
33: Pirates ante portas!
34: Pompey’s Cruise Control (I): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed’
35: Pompey’s Cruise Control (II): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed’
36: ‘Thou Art More Lovely and More Temperate’: Pompey’s Soft Sides
37: SPQR Confidential
38: Of Locusts and Leeches
39: Pompey the Peaceful, or: Imperialism with Gloves
40: No Sight-Seeing or Souvenirs for the Perfect General
41: Saint Pompey
42: Peace for our Time
43: Rumour and Renown: Pompey’s auctoritas
44: Case Study I: The Socio-Economics of Pompey’s auctoritas
45: Case Study II: Pompey’s auctoritas and psychological warfare
46: auctoritas Supreme
47: Felicitas, or how not to ‘Sull(a)y’ Pompey
48: The Darling of the Gods
49: Summing Up
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
The protagonists
The historical context
List of rhetorical terms
6. Bibliography
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