Author: Neely, Meleah
Title: Cicero’s De Lege Agraria and the Politics of the Ciceronian Appeal in the Late Roman Republic
Review/Collection: Brown Classical Journal Volume 37
Year edition: 2025
Pages: 116-124
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: In the first half of this essay, I will lay out Cicero’s background and the context of De Lege Agraria, which will foreground my examination of his first speech delivered before the Senate. In this speech, he satisfies both aspects of what I call his “appeal.” I will then spend the second half of this paper examining how these principles carry into his second speech before the crowd in the contio, reflecting on what his “appeal” could indicate and its value in ongoing conversations surrounding the political power of the populace in the late Republic.[Author]
Works:
Link: https://classics.brown.edu/sites/default/files/BCJ/BCJ%2037%20FINAL%20OPT%20(1).pdf#page=124
Author initials: Neely 2025
Title: Cicero’s De Lege Agraria and the Politics of the Ciceronian Appeal in the Late Roman Republic
Review/Collection: Brown Classical Journal Volume 37
Year edition: 2025
Pages: 116-124
Keywords: Droit - Diritto - Law, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: In the first half of this essay, I will lay out Cicero’s background and the context of De Lege Agraria, which will foreground my examination of his first speech delivered before the Senate. In this speech, he satisfies both aspects of what I call his “appeal.” I will then spend the second half of this paper examining how these principles carry into his second speech before the crowd in the contio, reflecting on what his “appeal” could indicate and its value in ongoing conversations surrounding the political power of the populace in the late Republic.[Author]
Works:
Link: https://classics.brown.edu/sites/default/files/BCJ/BCJ%2037%20FINAL%20OPT%20(1).pdf#page=124
Author initials: Neely 2025
