Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model

Cicero's Phillipics have received little attention as works of oratory. On the other hand, scholars have considered Cicero's attitudes toward Demosthenes to be an issue of importance. Cecil Wooten brings together these two concerns, linking Cicero's use of Demosthenes as a model in the Phillipics to precise analyses of style, rhetorical modulation, and narrative technique.