Selected Works Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Selected Works Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

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Chapter 1, Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I

• Chapter 1, Attack on Misgovernment, Against Verres I is a series of judicial orations and consists of seven speeches.
• Cicero served as a prosecutor against the corrupt governor of Sicily.

• Many people of Sicily and Rome disliked Verres and backed Cicero.
• Hortensius, Verres' lawyer tried to stall the judicial process until he could be elected as consul.

• Cicero would lose immediately, but Cicero thwarts the strategy.

• Cicero wants to urge the jury to convict.
• The court's reputation has been tarnished.

• Failure to convict would confirm the people's suspicions.

• Cicero begins intense attacks on Verres' character and actions.
• The attempt to buy the jurors shows corruption and that they were just waiting.

• Cicero attacks Horentensius for not taking the proceedings seriously.

• Cicero opposes evil and defends honor of the legal process.
• Cicero's proceedings will follow precedent.

• Attack on Misgovernment ends with accusations against...

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