The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
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348
Utgivningsdatum
2021-09-16
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Cambridge University Press
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229 x 152 x 19 mm
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577 g
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1
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414:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on White w/Matte Lam
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9781108495950

The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus

The Invention of Literary History

av Christopher S Van Den Berg
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2021-09-16
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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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'a fine study ... Recommended.' A. M. Keith, Choice Connect

'... 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

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CHRISTOPHER S. VAN DEN BERG is Professor of Classics at Amherst College. He is the author of The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus (Cambridge, 2014) and has published and researched broadly in ancient and modern political rhetoric.

Innehållsförteckning

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.

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