Comedy in the "Pro Caelio": With an Appendix on the in Clodium Et Curionem

Cicero applies characterization and dramatic patterns borrowed from comedy in his defense of M. Caelius Rufus. He successfully shifts the attention from his client's possible guilt to persons linked with the prosecution, in the process entertaining the court and audience with witty, brilliant caricaturs.

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When it was announced several years ago that Cicero's Pro Caclio would be added as an acceptable alternate for the AP Latin Literature syllabus, teachers began searching for materials that would assist them in teaching this particular text. Now one of the best such resources, Katherine Geffcken's fascinating (though hitherto difficult-to-obtain) volume on the Pro Caelio...has been attractively and inexpensively reissued ....

When it was announced several years ago that Cicero's Pro Caclio would be added as an acceptable alternate for the AP Latin Literature syllabus, teachers began searching for materials that would assist them in teaching this particular text. Now one of the best such resources, Katherine Geffcken's fascinating (though hitherto difficult-to-obtain) volume on the Pro Caelio...has been attractively and inexpensively reissued .... --Classical Bulletin, 2007