The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus The Invention of Literary History
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.07.2023
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
308
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.1/2 cm
Gewicht
470 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-00-928135-5
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.
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