{"id":7095,"date":"2007-05-14T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2007-05-14T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T17:44:01","slug":"why-poets-are-needed-cicero-pro-archia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2007\/05\/14\/why-poets-are-needed-cicero-pro-archia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why poets are needed (Cicero, Pro Archia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cicero defends the poet Archias against the charge that he was not a\u00a0Roman citizen, and in the process tells the jury why, in his view,\u00a0poetry is valuable to the state and why the name of poet is\u00a0revered (<em>sanctum<\/em>). The speech was originally given in 62 B.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumromanum.org\/literature\/cicero\/arch.html\">Latin text<\/a> of the speech, with English and French translations, from Forum Romanum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uah.edu\/student_life\/organizations\/SAL\/texts\/latin\/classical\/cicero\/proarchiacom.html\">Analysis<\/a> of the speech with some notes on the Latin, from an unidentified source<\/p>\n<p>Part 1: intro. and sections 1-5 of the speech\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-01-05.mp3]\n<p>Part 2: sections 6-10 of the speech\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-06-10.mp3]\n<p>Part 3: sections 11-14\u00a0of the speech\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-11-14.mp3]\n<p>Part 4: sections 15-20\u00a0of the speech\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-15-20.mp3]\n<p>Part 5: sections 21-24\u00a0of the speech\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-21-24.mp3]\n<p>Part 6: sections 25-29\u00a0of the speech\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-25-29.mp3]\n<p>Part 7: sections 30-32 of the speech\u00a0(conclusion)\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/archive\/images\/cicero-pro-archia-30-32.mp3]\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicero defends the poet Archias against the charge that he was not a\u00a0Roman citizen, and in the process tells the jury why, in his view,\u00a0poetry is valuable to the state and why the name of poet is\u00a0revered (sanctum). The speech was originally given in 62 B.C. Latin text of the speech, with English and French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-poetry-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}