Antony as a miles gloriosus in Cicero’s Second Philippic

Author: Sussman, Lewis A.
Title: Antony as a miles gloriosus in Cicero’s Second Philippic
Review/Collection: "Scholia: studies in classical antiquity", 3
Place edition: Scottsville
Editor: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Year edition: 1994
Pages: 53-83
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: [APh] [Comment] In the Second Philippic Cicero depicted Antony's leuitas by casting him in a variety of roles fashioned after the stock characters of Roman comedy. The most pervasive, subtle, and damaging of these was the part of the miles gloriosus.
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Link: https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC127864
Author initials: Sussman 1994