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The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history / Christopher S. van den Berg

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781009281386
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781009281355 | Erscheint auch als: 9781009281355 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 875/.01 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6296.B7
Online resources: Summary: 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 CorePPN: PPN: 1916241603Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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