The Thrill of Defeat

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Summary of the Chapters IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Were Cicero’s Philippics the Cause of his Death? 15
7. The Thrill of Defeat 37
8. Ille regit dictis animos 57
9. Man of Peace? 79
10. Libera uoluntas 97
11. Ciceronian Reception in the Epistula ad Octauianum 121
12. Can it Ever be Wise to Kill the Tyrant? 137
13. Bruni, Cicero, and their Manifesto for Republicanism 155
14. Multilayered Appropriation(s) 175
15. Marc-Antoine Muret and his Lectures on Cicero’s De officiis 197
16. First Epilogue 221
17. Second Epilogue 239
18. Bibliography 255
19. Index Locorum 281
20. Index Nominum 295