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The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

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Publius Cornelius Scipio - To His Army Before Battle

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

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Listen next episodes of The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome:
Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 2 , Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 2 , Agricola - To His Army in Scotland , Caius Marius - On Being Accused of a Low Origin , Caius Memmius - On a Corrupt Oligarchy , Catiline - I - An Exhortation to Conspiracy , Catiline - II - To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle , Cato the Censor - In Support of the Oppian Law , Cato the Younger - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators , Cicero - I - The First Oration Against Verres , Cicero - II - In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law, part 1 , Cicero - III - The First Oration Against Catiline , Cicero - IV - The Second Oration Against Catiline , Cicero - V - In Behalf of Archias the Poet , Cicero - VI - The First Oration Against Mark Antony , Cicero - VII - The Second Oration Against Mark Antony, part 1 , Germanicus - I - To His Mutinous Troops , Germanicus - II - To His Friends When Dying , Hannibal - Address to His Soldiers , Julius Caesar - On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators , Mark Anthony - His Oration Over the Dead Body of Caesar , Otho - I - On Becoming Emperor , Otho - II - To His Soldiers in Rome , Otho - III - To His Soldiers Before Committing Suicide , Scipio Africanus Major - To His Mutinous Troops , Seneca - To Nero When in Disfavor , The Gracchi - I - Fragments by Tiberius Gracchus , The Gracchi - II - Fragments by Caius Gracchus