Speeches Against Catilina: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Speeches Against Catilina, credited to Marcus Tullius Cicero, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Speeches Against Catilina by Marcus Tullius Cicero. (Translated by Ernest Alfred Upcott.) Read in Latin by Phil Schempf; Pamela Nagami; Esther C; Tony Oliva; Ann Boulais This volume contains the four speeches delivered by Cicero in 63 BC, when he was a consul, against the conspiracy headed by L. Sergius Catilina. Catilina was scheming to bring about a general uprising in the country if he could not rise to a position of power by election. This volume includes an English introduction and notes on the speeches by E.A. Upcott. The e-text used to produce this audiobook also includes further helpful study material for Latin scholars, which have been omitted from this audio version. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Speeches Against Catilina
• Author credits: Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:23:56

Catalogue topics

• Latin
• speeches
• oration

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction by Ernest Alfred Upcott — 19:28
2. 02 - Note A — 3:02
3. 03 - Note B - On the Legality of the Execution — 5:37
4. 04 - Oration I. - Before the Senate — 43:53
5. 05 - Oration II. - Before the People — 39:53
6. 06 - Oration III. - Before the People — 53:03
7. 07 - Oration IV. - Before the Senate — 39:00

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