https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7 Share the quotes you collected about various aspects of Cicero's style, context, and agenda. To get credit for your sharing, please make sure that your name is attached to each post, as well as the name of the author and page # for your quotes. en-us 2019-05-03 17:24:12 UTC 2019-05-09 17:33:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/91810442/4eab4ab0d7f4cb776574703dd4e24fd6/giraffe_icon.svg https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357300431 -abigail fuller (Mania Amatia Lupa)]]> 2019-05-06 17:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357300431 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357301457 “The ciceronian period also in general a rigorous logical structure...elimination of constructions ‘according to sense’ as well as colloquial language” (Conte section 6) ~ShaSha ]]> 2019-05-06 17:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357301457 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357301580 2019-05-06 17:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357301580 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357302060 used his wealth

]]> 2019-05-06 17:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357302060 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357302332 2019-05-06 17:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357302332 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357302461 “Cicero saw himself more as a politician and statesman than a writer and thinker...this may be why many contemporary reactions we can discern to Cicero as a writer are distinctly negative” (Conte section 9) ~ShaSha]]> 2019-05-06 17:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357302461 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357303390 “A martyr to tyranny... privilege liberty over equality/democracy and upper classes over plebeians” (conte section 9) ~ShaSha]]> 2019-05-06 17:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357303390 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357303611 jackson]]> 2019-05-06 17:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357303611 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357304862 Wants everyone to be pissed at Catiline and used phrases like "oh citizens" to get people to come together on his side. Braydon ]]> 2019-05-06 17:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357304862 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357304891 jackson]]> 2019-05-06 17:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357304891 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357305650 it makes him sound like the savior of rome while catiline is trying to destroy it

]]> 2019-05-06 17:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357305650 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357306316 jackson]]> 2019-05-06 17:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357306316 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357306844 “Cicero managed to detach his colleague Antonius from Caroline and so neutralize the threat posed by having a potential supporter of Cataline at the head of the government” (Longman) ~ShaSha]]> 2019-05-06 17:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357306844 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357306857 2019-05-06 17:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357306857 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357307131 Many writers criticized him, but knew his writings would be known for a long time. “ his fame will last forever” (Confe, pg 203, Cicero’s literary success)  ]]> 2019-05-06 17:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357307131 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357307612 he tries to link himself to thew gods ]]> 2019-05-06 17:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357307612 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357307681 jackson]]> 2019-05-06 17:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357307681 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357308467 “Cataline appears to have directed his appeal more and more to the down and out, those who had burdened themselves with debt and those who had suffered..” (Longman) ~ShaSha]]> 2019-05-06 17:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357308467 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357309076 He is a very important guy in history. “Privilege liberty over equality and democracy” (confe, 206) ]]> 2019-05-06 17:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357309076 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357450442 - Abi ]]> 2019-05-07 02:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357450442 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357460513 “Cicero, the great advocate, the superb manipulator of words for the purpose of persuasion, utilizes such stratagems in his speeches and theorizes about them in his rhetorical treatises.” Pg. 177 Author- Gian Biagio Conte (1994).
Molly Elliott ]]> 2019-05-07 03:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357460513 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357461227 “In 49, upon the outbreak of the civil war, Cicero adhered to Pompey’s cause without enthusiasm.” Pg. 184 Author- Gian Biagio Conte (1994) 
Molly Elliott ]]> 2019-05-07 03:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357461227 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357461877 “With the passage of time,” wrote Plutarch in his Life of Cicero, “he believed he was not only the greatest orator but also the greatest poet of Rome...” Pg. 200 Author- Gian Biagio Conte (1994) 
This might be good to keep in mind because his style of writing might lead to deeper meanings in his speeches.  
Molly Elliott ]]> 2019-05-07 03:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357461877 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357667352 Cicero had a drive to establish an intellectual ethical and political base for thought.
-Tameron]]> 2019-05-07 15:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357667352 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357668851 Cicero tries to get Antonious on his side so that he has more power on Cataline 
-Tameron]]> 2019-05-07 15:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357668851 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357678667 Cicero continually questions, not giving a chance for response. Each question striking a new point. this shows that he feels he has power over him, like Cicero is in charge
-Tameron]]> 2019-05-07 15:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357678667 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357731609 "Cicero's work can be read as the search for a difficult balance between modernization and the necessity of preserving traditional values." pg 178, --ruby m]]> 2019-05-07 17:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357731609 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357732122  "Lucius Sirgius Catiline and Marcus Tullius Cicero. Catiline was a near bankrupt aristocrat, while Cicero, his most outspoken adversary, was a renowned orator and statesman as well as a philosopher and poet."
Author - Donald L Wasson pg 1 (article) (2016) --Joe]]> 2019-05-07 17:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357732122 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357732612 "He poses questions regarding the very roots of social, political, and moral crisis in Roman society and tries to devise long term solutions." pg 192, --ruby m]]> 2019-05-07 17:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357732612 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357733434 "Marcus Tullius Cicero expressed principles that became the bedrock of liberty in the modern world. He insisted on the primacy of moral standards over governmentlaws. These standards became known as natural law." Author - Jim Powell (1997) pg 1(article) -- Joe]]> 2019-05-07 17:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357733434 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357733797 "Influx of wealth made the rigid morality of early days a hopeless anachronism, yet swift abandonment of virtues and values [questioned the survival of Rome]." pg 178, --ruby m]]> 2019-05-07 17:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357733797 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357734862 Cicero works very hard in his writing to give himself glory and fame while focusing the spotlight on the God's which no one would ever argue with. 
- Joe]]> 2019-05-07 17:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357734862 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357735640 He uses a tone of calm panic in order to give people the size of the situation while also seeming to remain in control. He wants to make sure he seems like he's got everything under control, but the God's are still in control
-Joe]]> 2019-05-07 17:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357735640 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357735725 "[Catiline is represented as someone who] spoke before elections to plot massacres of political enemies, to seize choice offices and appointments for themselves in bloody uprising, and to remedy their financial difficulties by cancelling all financial debts." pg 3, --ruby m ]]> 2019-05-07 17:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357735725 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357736341 The most influential part of Cicero in my opinion is the instatement of a natural law. And Cicero is arguably one of the first to really use the full power of words in politics in order to pass a law before the law has even really been introduced. It has messed with how we communicate argumentatively now. -Joe]]> 2019-05-07 17:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357736341 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357737636 Cicero's public speaking allowed him to over come his families disadvantage as non sensational; and excessively proud man 
--ruby m]]> 2019-05-07 17:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357737636 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357738764 Same quote as Shasha's Conte section 6 
--ruby m]]> 2019-05-07 17:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357738764 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357741780 "Clearly, it was Cicero's skill as a public speaker that enabled him to overcome the disadvantage of his birth into a non senatorial family. Cicero was recognized in his lifetime as Rome's foremost orator, and no other figure before or after him comes close to challenging his preeminence." Pg. 7 Author: Longman, White Ptains, Ny (1998) Molly Elliott ]]> 2019-05-07 17:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357741780 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357742028 "Cicero attempted to give substance to his political- social program through practical applications that may be adapted, sometimes opportunistically." JOCELYN!!!]]> 2019-05-07 17:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357742028 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357744675 2019-05-07 17:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357744675 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357745870 "He won the reputation of being an honest and scrupulous governor" Jocelyn]]> 2019-05-07 17:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357745870 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357746562 Same quote as Ruby (page 178)
-Jocelyn]]> 2019-05-07 17:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357746562 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357746742 Bella H]]> 2019-05-07 17:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357746742 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357747236 Same Rhetoric quote as Molly -Jocelyn]]> 2019-05-07 17:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357747236 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357747626 Cicero overcame disadvantages that would ideally hold him back from gaining office but he managed to "alarm the voters" against his rivals. Jocelyn]]> 2019-05-07 17:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357747626 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357898359 "Clearly, it was Cicero's skill as a public speaker that enabled him him to overcome the disadvantage of his birth into a nonsentorial family" (Longman, 7). This shows that Cicero made his speeches a priority to influence the public because despite his "unqualifications" he proved that he could be an impactful leader. His confidence through his speeches overpowered his flaws to the public eye. - Abi Stucky

]]> 2019-05-08 03:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357898359 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357899362 "...the disadvantage of his birth into a nonsenatorial family" (Longman, 7). A nonsenatorial family is basically a phrase meaning that he did not come from a long line of senators. This can be positive, because he can relate more to his audience in his speech because he grew up in similar conditions as them. - Abi Stucky

]]> 2019-05-08 03:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357899362 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357899915 "In later years, Cicero took what some have regarded as excessive pride in his accomplishment of saving the state from Catiline's plot" (Longman, 7). This can describe who Cicero could have had a very eragant tone because he believed he saved Rome from Catiline. To do this he probably talked about himself in a very "godly" manner. - Abi Stucky]]> 2019-05-08 03:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357899915 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357900814 "...he lacked the network of political connections and allies to influence the course of events as he would have liked" (Longman, 7). This shows how Catiline tried to make his connections with outside sources a priority but fell short of what he wanted to accomplish. - Abi Stucky
 ]]> 2019-05-08 03:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357900814 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357901302 2019-05-08 03:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/357901302 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358145744 “Cicero was recognized in his lifetime as Rome’s foremost orator, and no other figure before or after him comes close to challenging his preeminence”(7 Longman) ]]> 2019-05-08 16:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358145744 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358579316 "Attempted to stand for an election" (Longman, 2-3, at the bottom). During the time of the election, the city of rome was in the process or transitioning of power. Because Cicero won the election, he speaks with the intentions of keeping his power and empowering himself 24/7.]]> 2019-05-09 17:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358579316 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358580201 "Nearly all Cicero's rhetorical works were written from 55, a couple of years after his return from exile, [...] they are produced by the need for a political and cultural response to the crisis." Jocelyn K Conte]]> 2019-05-09 17:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358580201 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358583214 2019-05-09 17:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358583214 https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358592929 "Clearly, it was Cicero's skill as a public speaker that enabled him to overcome the disadvantage of his birth into a nonsensational family
Jocelyn (sallust)]]> 2019-05-09 17:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_preminger/bzgvt7orfag7/wish/358592929