{"id":20020,"date":"2024-05-29T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=20020"},"modified":"2024-06-03T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:11:27","slug":"guide-to-cicero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/05\/guide-to-cicero\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Cicero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post provides a guide for reading through ethnographically significant passages in Cicero&#8217;s (mid-first century BCE) treatises, letters, and speeches on this website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts and divination \u2013 <em>On the Republic<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/assyrians-chaldeans-egyptians-celts-and-others-the-cicero-brothers-on-the-nature-and-effectiveness-of-divination-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptians, Taurians, Celts and cultural relativity &#8211; <em>On the Republic<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/egyptians-taurians-and-celts-ciceros-philus-engages-in-ethnographic-discourses-for-philosophical-aims-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persians and Magians \u2013 <em>On the <\/em><em>Republic <\/em>and other works (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/persians-deinon-chrysippos-and-cicero-on-their-character-and-customs-third-century-bce-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptian wisdom via Pythagoras&#8217;, Plato&#8217;s and Demokritos&#8217; journeys \u2013 <em>On the Republic<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/egyptian-wisdom-cicero-diodoros-and-valerius-maximus-on-pythagoras-and-platos-supposed-journey-to-egypt-first-centuries-bce-and-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Egyptians and animal worship \u2013 <em>On the Nature of the Gods<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/egyptians-cicero-on-superstition-and-animal-worship-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indian and Persian wisdom \u2013 <em>On<\/em> <em>Divination<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/indian-wisdom-plutarch-on-alexander-the-naked-philosophers-and-kalanos-early-second-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Libyans, Iberians, and Celts as &#8220;savage&#8221; peoples requiring control \u2013\u00a0<em>Letters to His Brother<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/04\/libyans-iberians-and-celts-cicero-on-controlling-savage-peoples-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Celts \/ Gauls, Julius Caesar&#8217;s command, and conquest \u2013 <em>On the Consular Provinces<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/gauls-cicero-and-the-link-between-imperial-conquest-and-negative-stereotypes-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Cilicians and imperial control of &#8220;pirate&#8221; peoples \u2013\u00a0<em>Pompey&#8217;s Command<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2024\/03\/cilicians-roman-authorities-cicero-and-florus-on-a-population-of-pirates-100-bce-on\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sicilians praised \u2013 <em>Against Verres<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/sicilians-and-other-greeks-ciceros-praise-for-sicilians-in-the-prosecution-of-verres-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Phoenicians and Sardinians blamed \u2013 <em>For Marcus Scaurus<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/phoenicians-and-sardinians-ciceros-ethnic-invective-in-defending-marcus-scaurus-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Gauls blamed \u2013 <em>For Marcus Fonteius<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/celts-gauls-ciceros-ethnic-invective-in-defending-fonteius-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Judeans and Asiatics blamed \u2013 <em>For<\/em> <em>Flaccus<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/10\/judeans-asiatics-and-greeks-ciceros-ethnic-invective-aimed-at-eastern-witnesses-against-flaccus-mid-first-century-bce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post provides a guide for reading through ethnographically significant passages in Cicero&#8217;s (mid-first century BCE) treatises, letters, and speeches on this website: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts and divination \u2013 On the Republic (link) Egyptians, Taurians, Celts and cultural relativity &#8211; On the Republic (link) Persians and Magians \u2013 On the Republic and other works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,299,282,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-guides-ethnographic-passages-ancient-author","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture","category-cicero-roman","category-ethnicity-ancient-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21174,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions\/21174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}