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The Philippics (Latin: Philippicae, singular Philippica) are a series of 14 speeches composed by Cicero in 44 and 43 BC, condemning Mark Antony. Cicero likened these speeches to those of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon ; [ 1 ] both Demosthenes' and Cicero's speeches became known as Philippics .
Bust of Demosthenes (Louvre, Paris, France). A philippic (/fɪˈlɪpɪk/) [1] is a fiery, damning speech, or tirade, delivered to condemn a particular political actor.The term is most famously associated with three noted orators of the ancient world: Demosthenes of ancient Athens, Cato the Elder and Cicero of ancient Rome.
Epitome of the Historia Philippicae The Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus [ 2 ] (Latin Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi ) [ 3 ] by the second-century Roman writer Justin is an abridgment of the Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus ' lengthy work the Historiae Philippicae , which has not survived.
Following Aristotle and Theophrastus, Pompeius Trogus wrote books on the natural history of animals and plants. [1]His principal work, however, was his 44-volume Philippic Histories and the Origin of the Whole World and the Places of the Earth (Historiae Philippicae et Totius Mundi Origines et Terrae Situs), now lost, which, according to its surviving epitome, had as its principal theme the ...
The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most renowned collections of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity. Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist who lived during the years of 106–43 BC.
In September he began attacking Antony in a series of speeches he called the Philippicae, in honour of his inspiration—Demosthenes. Praising Octavian to the skies, he labelled him a "god-sent child" and said that the young man only desired honour and would not make the same mistake as his adoptive father.
The first of Cicero's Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Antony is published. He will make 14 of them over the next several months. [3] December – Antony besieges Brutus Albinus in Mutina (Modena), with Octavian, an ally of Decimus, who is one of his uncle's assassins, close by.
Almost nothing is known of Justin's personal history, his name appearing only in the title of his work. He must have lived after Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, whose work he excerpted, and his references to the Romans and Parthians having divided the world between themselves would have been anachronistic after the rise of the Sassanians in the third century.