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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