Table of Contents
Foreword .................................................................................................................. 2
Summary ........................................................................................................................... 3
About the authors ...................................................................................................... 3
First speech: Artemisia to Isocrates .......................................................................... 6
Second speech – Mariamne to Herod ........................................................................ 11
Third speech – Cleopatra to Mark Antony ......................................................... 20
Fourth speech – Sisygambis to Alexander ............................................................ 27
Fifth speech – Sophonisba to Massinissa.................................................................. 34
Sixth speech – Zenobia to her daughters ........................................................................ 40
Seventh speech – Porcia to Volumnius ..................................................................... 50
Eighth speech – Berenice to Titus .......................................................................... 56
Ninth speech – Panthea to Cyrus ......................................................................... 63
Tenth speech – Amalasuntha to Theodahad .................................................................. 69
Eleventh speech – Lucretia to Collatinus ........................................................................ 75
Twelfth speech – Veturia to Volumnia ........................................................................... 80
Thirteenth speech – Eudoxia to Theodosius ................................................................... 88
Fourteenth speech – Pulcheria to Flavian ................................................................ 94
Fifteenth speech – Calpurnia to Lepidus .................................................................. 101
Sixteenth speech – Livia to Maecenas ............................................................................ 116
Seventeenth speech – Cloelia to Porsena .................................................................125
Eighteenth speech – Octavia to Octavius ..................................................................132
Nineteenth speech – Agrippina to the Roman people ............................................. 138
Twentieth speech – Sappho to Erinna ...................................................................... 148
First Speech: Artemisia to Isocrates
Artemisia, Queen of Caria
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