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Brutus is a work by Cicero that explains the history of Roman oratory, and Orator highlights the basic requirements needed to be the best orator. This is important because it helps scholars best estimate when De Optimo Genere Oratorum was written in accordance with these two texts.
Orator Date References Ad Caesarem Senem de Re Publica Oratio: Speech on the State, Addressed to Caesar in His Later Years: Sallust discusses Caesar's conquests and wars. Sallust: 46 BCE [1] [2] Ad Litis Censorias: Cato the Elder 184 BCE [3] M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationes in Catilinam: Marcus Tullius Cicero's Orations against Catiline
Demosthenes (First Olynthiac, 20)—The orator took great pains to convince his countrymen that the reform of the theoric fund was necessary to finance the city's military preparations. From this moment until 341 BC, all of Demosthenes' speeches referred to the same issue, the struggle against Philip.
Cicero mentions the idea that Cato is overshadowed by other figures, but is still noteworthy. After Cato, new orators appeared in Rome such as Severius Galba. He also provides an example of how Galba was able to win over the court with an amazing, eloquent speech and that his people (in a court case) were freed from all charges. [3]
Dio also recommends reading post-Classical orators, specifically Antipater, Theodorus, Plution, and Conon, because they could be criticised, unlike the Classical orators, whom Dio considers beyond reproach (12). Dio notes that the inclusion of contemporary authors might be controversial; other Greek literary surveys of this period avoid post ...
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.
330 BC: "On the Crown" by the Greek orator Demosthenes, which illustrated the last great phase of political life in Athens 63 BC: " Catiline Orations ", given by Marcus Tullius Cicero , the consul of Rome, exposing to the Roman Senate the plot of Lucius Sergius Catilina and his friends to overthrow the Roman government
De Oratore (On the Orator) is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BC. It is set in 91 BC, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before the Social War and the civil war between Marius and Sulla, during which Marcus Antonius, the other great orator of this dialogue, dies.