Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780789025913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 268 str.

Marshall William Fishwick

Opis

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a poet, philosopher, writer, scholar, barrister, statesman, patriot and the linguist who helped make Lating into a universal language. This text explores the fascinating man behind the eloquence and his monumental effect on language, Morality and popularity of Western civilisation.

Spis treści

• About the Author
• Contributors
• Foreword (Kathy Merlock Jackson)
• Acknowledgments
• THE SEARCH BEGINS: A CICERONIAN MOSAIC
• Prelude
• Cicero, Model for the Ages
• Moving Up the Ladder: The New Man from Arpinum
• Cicero: Godfather of Popular Culture
• Soul Mates: Cicero and Jefferson
• Logos
• Cicero and Community
• Two Pivotal Essays
• Reputation
• THE SEARCH WIDENS: EXPLORING ITALY
• Strolling Through Time
• Countess Caesarii
• Off to Arpinum
• Florence
• Dreaming
• Bologna
• Urbino
• Proto
• Good-Bye Roma
• THE SEARCH CONTINUES: CICERO’S LEGACY
• Hail, Caesar!
• Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
• Does Cicero Still Speak?
• America: The New Rome
• Cicero’s Fate (James Combs)
• Cicero Still Speaks (Franco de Battaglia)
• Some Final Thoughts
• Notes
• Bibliographic Essay: an Electronic Search for Cicero
• Index

O autorze

Authored by Fishwick, Marshall