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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Ciceropaideia 2. The intellectual genealogy of the Brutus 3. Caesar and the political crisis 4. Truthmaking and the past 5. Beginning (and) literary history 6. Perfecting literary history 7. Cicero's Attici 8. Minerva, Venus, and Cicero's judgments on Caesar's style Conclusion.
Introduction 1. Ciceropaideia 2. The intellectual genealogy of the Brutus 3. Caesar and the political crisis 4. Truthmaking and the past 5. Beginning (and) literary history 6. Perfecting literary history 7. Cicero's Attici 8. Minerva, Venus, and Cicero's judgments on Caesar's style Conclusion.
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