Reading Cicero - Couverture souple

Steel, C.E.W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0715632795 ISBN 13 : 9780715632796

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 2005

Synopsis

M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was also a major political figure at Rome during the Late Republic. The relationship between these two facets of his career is the subject of this book, which argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life in the Late Republic is transformed if Cicero's writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics. Writing offered Cicero a huge range of opportunities to impress himself upon an audience much wider than could be reached through the traditional mechanisms of politics at Rome; it also enabled him to construct a distinct identity in the public sphere as a substitute for his lack of political ancestry. A chapter on genre sites Cicero's writing in the late Republican context and stresses both his inventiveness and his flexibility; then the ways in which Cicero's public personas and his relationships with others are articulated in his works are considered; the book concludes with a consideration of the connections between wr

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Catherine Steel is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow and author of Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (2001).

Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, UK. His publications include Divinity and History: the religion of Herodotus (2000), The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century (2000); as editor Greeks and Barbarians (2002) and the Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0715632795
• ISBN 13: 9780715632796
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible