#pro milone

[1canadanus1]

Just finished reading Pro Milone. Wow.

[tyrian-red]

guys idont think promilone is suppose dto mske me hard

[locutus-sum]

image credit @marcusagrippa

[firnen-the-teragram-teabag]

Rest in peace Cicero you would've loved twitter

[classics-cassandra]

Love my pro milone translation with footnotes basically saying ‘Cicero is lying here’

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Brutus: My wife's uncle Publius Clodius got murdered? As he should!

[catilinas]

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PRO MILONE IN HISTORICAL FICTION, RANKED:

5. robert harris: oh people yell at cicero or whatever this was so MUNDANE that i can’t remember it!!!

4. tom holland: honourable mention because the pro milone isn’t actually in attis. but the way the plot goes means that milo is in effect A Literal Clown

3. steven saylor: i mean cool to see cicero’s Hubris in being like this is the BEST speech of all time. and then not being able to do it. but honestly the experience of this whole book is influenced by The Pit so. h

2. colleen mccullough: colleen giveth w her interpretation of all events leading up to and after clodius’ assassination. no spoilers. in classic colleen style, plausible yet unprovable. wow. cicero jumbling up words right there in dialogue is funny, actually, and the fact that what he’s saying is Recognisably pro milone 28, but it’s like.... recognisably Not that is cool and authentic. also caelius repeatedly asking cicero to Please Just Stop Talking is wild

1. benita kane jaro: wow this scene sure did fuck me up!!! probably not a valid Historical interpretation but in the frame of the book and series as a whole? in execution? in it as an emotional turning point for the novel? she got cicero fucking up and turned it into tragic anagnorisis........ wow can’t quite remember but maybe she even ended the book there! which means the whole plot is framed between clodius’ trial for sacrilege and the trial around clodius’ death.... 

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Remember when Cicero called Sextus Cloelius The Light Of The Curia, because he had set the curia on fire?