Letteratura latina 42: Cicerone, Pro Archia poeta

📜 What's the point of literature and poetry? What's the point of studying? Eternal questions to which Cicero offers his enlightened and illuminating answers in this beautiful oration, composed in 62 AD as defense counsel for Aulus Licinius Archias in the civil trial for usurpation of Roman citizenship. #latin #latinliterature #literature #letters #romanhistory #classicalhighschool #students #school #study #videolessons #classics #culture #cicero #highschool #lawyer #whatisstudyingfor #usefulnessoftheuseless #trial #tribunals #romanhistory #orations ✅ 👍🏻 Thank you for subscribing to @HerrQuattrone, you'll help me create new videos! ———————————————————— Contents ⤵️ 00:00 The Trial of Archias 04:50 Structure of the Speech 06:15 Proem: Cicero's Relationship with Greek Culture 08:23 Cicero's Defense Strategy 10:13 The Use of Studying According to Cicero: In Praise of Letters ———————————————————— 🎶 Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Partita in C Major for Lute This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.