The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus the invention of literary history
"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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, UK, New York, Port Melbourne
Cambridge University Press
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 290 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108495950 978-1-108-49595-0 9781108811354 978-1-108-81135-4 |