Question 1
How many orations make up Cicero's series of speeches against Mark Antony known as the Philippicae?
Correct Answer:
Fourteen
Question 2
Why did Cicero himself apply the name 'Philippicae' to his speeches against Antony?
Correct Answer:
He compared his own campaign against Antony to Demosthenes' orations warning Athens against Philip II of Macedon
Question 3
What event immediately set the political crisis in motion that Cicero addresses throughout the Philippics?
Correct Answer:
The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BC
Question 4
What was Cicero's central rhetorical aim across the Philippic orations?
Correct Answer:
To brand Antony a would-be tyrant and public enemy (hostis) and rally the Senate to resist him
Question 5
What is distinctive about the Second Philippic among the fourteen orations?
Correct Answer:
It was never actually delivered as a spoken speech in the Senate but circulated as a written pamphlet
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