I'm glad she asked you rather than me this question, because it is not one I can help with, not even a little bit. :)
like Cicero's speeches against Catilina and Sallust's work about the conspiracy
How sensible! We had to read Sallust's Bellum Catilinae and Cicero's Pro Caelio in one of my courses, and in the Cicero-only course, the De Senectute and excerpts from the Verrine orations. I.e. all totally unrelated. I remember protesting to my professor that obviously we should have been reading Cicero against Catilina! But like I said, there was a distinct desire to not teach us history in a useful way: every work was a piece of literature that needed to be encountered without any context.
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Date: 2022-01-15 04:50 pm (UTC)like Cicero's speeches against Catilina and Sallust's work about the conspiracy
How sensible! We had to read Sallust's Bellum Catilinae and Cicero's Pro Caelio in one of my courses, and in the Cicero-only course, the De Senectute and excerpts from the Verrine orations. I.e. all totally unrelated. I remember protesting to my professor that obviously we should have been reading Cicero against Catilina! But like I said, there was a distinct desire to not teach us history in a useful way: every work was a piece of literature that needed to be encountered without any context.
I hope to remedy this someday. :)