[PDF] The Reception Of Cicero In The Early Roman Empire eBook

Author : Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108639976

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Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a 'new man' and leading a complex and contradictory life. After his murder in 43 BC, he was indeed remembered for his life and his works - but not for all of them. This book explores Cicero's reception in the early Roman Empire, showing what was remembered and why. It argues that early imperial politics and Cicero's schoolroom canonization had pervasive effects on his reception, with declamation and the schoolroom mediating and even creating his memory in subsequent generations. The way he was deployed in the schools was foundational to the version of Cicero found in literature and the educated imagination in the early Roman Empire, yielding a man stripped of the complex contradictions of his own lifetime and polarized into a literary and political symbol.

Author : Thomas John Keeline
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File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2014
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My dissertation investigates the reception of Cicero in the early Roman Empire, focusing on the first 250 years after his death. I show that this reception is primarily constructed by the ancient rhetorical schoolroom, where young Romans first encountered Cicero, reading his speeches and writing Ciceronian declamations. Here they were exposed to a particular version of the man, with emphases often selected for political purposes. When they grew up, that schoolroom image of Cicero continued to permeate their thought and writing. My study unpacks this complex process and lays bare the early Empire's relationship with one of its most significant late Republican predecessors.

Author : Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108426239

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

Author : Giuseppe La Bua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107068584

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Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.

Author : Christoph Pieper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3110716313

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This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final years have shaped Cicero’s reception in an special way, as they have condensed and enlarged themes that his life stands for: on the positive side his fight for freedom and the republic against mighty opponents (for which he would finally be killed); on the other hand his inconsistency in terms of political alliances and tendency to overestimate his own influence. For that reason, many later readers viewed the final months of Cicero's life as his swan song, and as representing the essence of his life as a whole. The fixed scope of this volume facilitates an analysis of the underlying debates about the historical character Cicero and his textual legacy (speeches, letters and philosophical works) through the ages, stretching from antiquity itself to the present day. Major themes negotiated in this volume are the influence of Cicero’s regular attempts to anticipate his later reception; the question of whether or not Cicero showed consistency in his behaviour; his debatable heroism with regard to republican freedom; and the interaction between philosophy, rhetoric and politics.

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521509939

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A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

Author : Joanna Kenty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108879330

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Cicero's speeches provide a fascinating window into the political battles and crises of his time. In this book, Joanna Kenty examines Cicero's persuasive strategies and the subtleties of his Latin prose, and shows how he used eight political personae – the attacker, the grateful friend, the martyr, the senator, the partisan ideologue, and others – to maximize his political leverage in the latter half of his career. These personae were what made his arguments convincing, and drew audiences into Cicero's perspective. Non-specialist and expert readers alike will gain new insight into Cicero's corpus and career as a whole, as well as a better appreciation of the context, details, and nuances of individual passages.

Author : Francesca Romana Berno
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3110748703

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Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, who eulogized his outstanding oratorical and political virtues but, not rarely, questioned the role he had in Roman politics and society. An international group of scholars elaborates on the figure of Cicero, shedding fresh light on his reception in late antiquity, Humanism and Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern centuries. Historians, literary scholars and philosophers, as well as graduate students, will certainly profit from this volume, which contributes enormously to our understanding of the influence of Cicero on Western culture over the times.

Author : Paul J. du Plessis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1474408842

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This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.

Author : J. P. F. Wynne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107070481

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Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.