Monumenti ‘contro’: spazio, memoria e lotta politica in Roma antica. A proposito di Cic. Phil. 14, 32-33

Abstract

The paper deals with a proposal by Cicero in the fourteenth Philippic aimed at erecting a public tomb for the brave soldiers who died in the battle of Forum Gallorum. This proposal hides the orator’s desire for a monument, perhaps strategically placed in a prominent position in the Campus Martius, which would combine the celebration of the fallen with a firm condemnation of Antonius, who is, in the opinion of Cicero, a hostis publicus.