Classics For Plebs

Please don't try these spells at home, kids. Or steal any magical oak trees. Or invoke the wrath of Juno. 

It never ends well.

It is 63BC. Cicero is consul of Rome. He has made it. He has achieved his lifelong ambition. It literally shouldn't get any better...

And yet, a grave peril threatens to de-stabilise his consulship, indeed, threatens to destroy the entirety of Rome... in the form of Lucius Sergius Catiline.

And, of course, there is only one man who can be called upon to save the Republic (...twice).

I present, in two episodes, a commentary on the four Catilinarian Orations, which Cicero gave to the people and the Senate as the Catilinarian conspiracy against Rome unfolded around them, and then a dramatic, abridged version of the orations themselves.