Another great orator was Marcus Tullius Cicero who in his Philippic Orations (based on the Demosthenic Model) railed against Mark Antony and his despotic passions and cruelty. Just as Demosthenes opposed Philip II of Macedonia during the period of the Second Athenian "Empire": 378/377-355 BCE (created by Thrasybulus after the fall of the First Athenian "Empire" with the ousting of the Lacedaemonian oligarchs.), so did Marcus Tullius Cicero rally the Senatorial forces against Mark Antony and his encroachments on the Roman Republic.
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