The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus

ISBN-13: 9781009281355 / Miękka / 2023 / 308 str.

Massachusetts) van den Berg Christopher S. (Amherst College

Opis

Cicero's dialogue on oratory responded to the political crisis of Julius Caesar but ultimately invented 'modern' literary history.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Ciceropaideia; 2. The intellectual genealogy of the Brutus; 3. Caesar and the political crisis; 4. Truthmaking and the past; 5. Beginning (and) literary history; 6. Perfecting literary history; 7. Cicero's Attici; 8. Minerva, Venus, and Cicero's judgments on Caesar's style; Conclusion.