UID:
almahu_9949577454002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-28134-8
,
1-009-28137-2
,
1-009-28138-0
Content:
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 is the first study of 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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-009-28135-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
DOI:
10.1017/9781009281386
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281386
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281386
