Table of Contents
Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 2

Abstract ........................................................................................................................ 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: Portia 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 Octavian ................................................................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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