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Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a magisterial dialogue on Rome's oratorical and political history, was written amidst Julius Caesar's rise to power. This book examines how Cicero, in responding to the civic crisis and contemporary intellectual developments, ultimately created the first complex account of literary history in the European tradition.

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Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a magisterial dialogue on Rome's oratorical and political history, was written amidst Julius Caesar's rise to power. This book examines how Cicero, in responding to the civic crisis and contemporary intellectual developments, ultimately created the first complex account of literary history in the European tradition.
Autorenporträt
CHRISTOPHER S. VAN DEN BERG is Professor of Classics at Amherst College. He is the author of The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus (Cambridge, 2014) and has published and researched broadly in ancient and modern political rhetoric.