In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their contemporary United States. This is the second volume in this series, in which the most famous speeches of great Roman statesmen are collected, including Cicero, Seneca, and Julius Caesar. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Publius Cornelius Scipio - To His Army Before Battle 10 min 2 Hannibal - Address to His Soldiers 10 min 3 Cato the Censor - In Support of the Oppian Law 16 min 4 Scipio Africanus Major - To His Mutinous Troops 12 min 5 The Gracchi - I - Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus 6 min 6 The Gracchi - II - Fragments by Caius Gracchus 4 min 7 Caius Memmius - On a Corrupt Oligarchy 10 min 8 Caius Marius - On Being Accused of a Low Origin 13 min 9 Cicero - I - The First Oration Against Verres 33 min 10 Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 1 17 min 11 Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 2 20 min 12 Cicero - III - The First Oration Against Catiline 34 min 13 Cicero - IV - The Second Oration Against Catiline 31 min 14 Cicero - V - In Behalf of Archias the Poet 27 min 15 Cicero - VI - The First Oration Against Mark Antony 38 min 16 Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 1 28 min 17 Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 2 30 min 18 Mark Anthony - His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar 36 min 19 Catiline - I - An Exhortation to Conspiracy 7 min 20 Catiline - II - To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle 4 min 21 Julius Caesar - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators 15 min 22 Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators 15 min 23 Germanicus - I - To His Mutinous Troops 5 min 24 Germanicus - II - To His Friends When Dying 2 min 25 Seneca - To Nero When in Disfavor 6 min 26 Otho - I - On Becoming Emperor 6 min 27 Otho - II - To His Soldiers in Rome 6 min 28 Otho - III - To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide 4 min 29 Agricola - To His Army in Scotland 6 min
