Summary
Cicero: Oration for Milo
In January 52 BC, a conflict between two street gangs on the Appian Way, not far from Rome, shook the most powerful state of the ancient world. The trial of Tito Ani Milon, the leader of the victorious gang, brought both the political elite and the metropolitan crowd to a passionate confrontation, which was abundant in the tired Republic. Milo's defender Mark Tullius Cicero, hindered by a series of unfavorable circumstances, fails to save his client from condemnation and exile. Some time later, however, Cicero published a refined and reworked Oration for Milo - to which the exile had only angry remarks, but which even then, and especially later readers, will perceive as a superb work and a model of court oratory. At the same time, this sermon is one of the important sources for the history of the late Republic.
Biblos Newsletter
New titles, special copies and quiet recommendations from the antiquarian bookshop.