Thomas J. Keeline

The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426237
• ISBN-10: 1108426239
• Artikelnr.: 51388929

Autorenporträt

Thomas J. Keeline is Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington University, St Louis. His research and teaching interests extend to all aspects of the ancient world and its reception, with a particular focus on Latin literature and the history of education and scholarship. He has published articles and reviews in the fields of Latin literature, lexicography, metrics, the history of classical scholarship and the classical tradition, and textual criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Pro Milone - reading Cicero in the schoolroom
2. Eloquence (dis)embodied - the textualization of Cicero
3. Remaking Cicero in the schoolroom - Cicero's death
4. Pro Cicerone/In Ciceronem - how to criticize Cicero
5. Seneca the Younger and Cicero
6. Tacitus: Dialogus de Cicerone?
7. Est ... mihi cum Cicerone aemulatio - Pliny's Cicero
Epilogue - the early empire and beyond.