The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus - Couverture souple

Van Den Berg, Christopher S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009281356 ISBN 13 : 9781009281355

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book studies the work from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives: Cicero's account of oratorical history, the confrontation with Caesar, and the exploration of what it means to write a history of an artistic practice. Close readings of this dialogue-including its apparent contradictions and tendentious fabrications-reveal a crucial and crucially productive moment in Greco-Roman thought. Cicero, this book argues, created the first nuanced, sophisticated, and ultimately 'modern' literary history, crafting both a compelling justification of Rome's oratorical traditions and also laying a foundation for literary historiography that abides to this day. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009281356
• ISBN 13: 9781009281355
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
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