The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus: The Invention of Literary History

ISBN-13: 9781108495950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 348 str.

Christopher S. Van Den Berg

Opis

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

Recenzje

'… van den Berg's book is an ambitious, well-argued, and timely work that offers a wealth of approaches to a challenging text with a complex reception history. Like the Brutus itself, it deftly straddles the often-siloed disciplines of history and literary criticism to provide valuable insight into the confluence of art and politics at a critical point in the story of Rome.' Noah Segal, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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.