NL vwo Latijn centraal examen 2027 · 2027 · vwo

Cicero the Orator

9 episodes · listening order

This route supports the Dutch vwo Latijn centraal examen 2027, whose set author is Cicero and whose set theme, Maken en breken: de macht van het woord, is read across four of his works: In Catilinam, Pro Archia Poeta, In Pisonem and De Oratore. It opens with Cicero's rise from Arpinum to the consulship of 63 BC, the debt crisis behind the Catiline conspiracy, and the four speeches In Catilinam. The exile that followed sits alongside an overview of his whole career from the prosecution of Verres onward. It closes on the speeches that cost him the most: the Philippics against Antony, delivered in his sixties and named after Demosthenes on purpose, and the campaign at Mutina that gave them their weight before costing Cicero his head and his hands.

Read the exam syllabus

39mThe Rise of Cicero The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

Thirty-nine minutes on how a man from Arpinum with no consular ancestors talked his way to the top of Roman politics. Catherine Steel on why the speeches still work.

36mEpisode CCXXIII - The Championship of the Oppressed (The Catiline Conspiracy IV) Emperors of RomePodcast

Part of Emperors of Rome

Thirty-six minutes on the debt crisis underneath the conspiracy, which is the part that made people follow him.

20m038- The Catiline Conspiracy The History of RomePodcast

Part of The History of Rome

Cicero's consulship, five executions without trial, and a plot whose scale depends entirely on who is describing it. Twenty minutes.

41mCatiline II: Cicero's Moment Cost of GloryPodcast

Part of Cost of Glory · Alex Petkas on Plutarch, 45 hours

36mEpisode CCXXV - The Exile of Cicero (The Catiline Conspiracy VI) Emperors of RomePodcast

Part of Emperors of Rome

Thirty-six minutes on the price of those five executions: a law aimed at Cicero by name and eighteen months out of Italy.

36mCicero The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

Henriette van der Blom on Cicero across the whole career, thirty-six minutes, from the prosecution of Verres to the head and hands nailed up on the rostra.

42mEpisode CLXXXIII - Philippics Emperors of RomePodcast

Part of Emperors of Rome

With Kathryn Tempest

Forty-two minutes on the fourteen speeches Cicero aimed at Antony while the armies were already marching. He named them after Demosthenes on purpose, and it cost him his head and his hands, nailed to the rostra he had spoken from.

32mCicero's Finest Hour (44 to 43 B.C.E.) Historia CivilisYouTube

Part of Historia Civilis

Cicero in his sixties taking on Antony with words alone, and losing his head for it. The Philippics as a political campaign.

YouTube
1h 01mCicero’s Fight for the Roman Republic The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients

Mutina, April 43 BC, with Octavian, Antony and Decimus Brutus all fielding armies and Cicero holding only a voice. Steele Brand takes Tristan Hughes through the campaign that gave the Philippics their weight and then cost Cicero his head and his hands.