bokomslag Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
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Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus

Christopher S Van Den Berg Christopher S Van Den Berg

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  • 2023
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.
  • Författare: Christopher S Van Den Berg, Christopher S Van Den Berg
  • Format: Trade paperback
  • ISBN: 9781009281355
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-07-20
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press