Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero

William H.F. Altman, Ph.D. (2010), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, is a philosopher and independent scholar working primarily on Plato and Cicero. In addition to Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), he is the author of monographs on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Leo Strauss.Contributors are: William H. F. Altman, Elisabeth Begemann, Caroline Bishop, JoAnn DellaNeva, Alex Dressler, Kathy Eden, Robert G. Ingram, Gábor Kendeffy, Carlos Lévy, Martin McLaughlin, Paul Allen Miller, Carl J. Richard, Matthew Joel Sharpe and John Oastler Ward.

• ContentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionWilliam H. F. AltmanPart 1 - Imitation or Criticism? 1 Petrarch and Cicero: Adulation and Critical Distance Martin McLaughlin2 Cicero’s Portion of Montaigne’s Acclaim Kathy Eden3 Lactantius as Christian Cicero, Cicero as Shadow-like InstructorGábor KendeffyPart 2 - The Politics of Reception4 Conyers Middleton’s Cicero: Enlightenment, Scholarship, and PolemicRobert G. Ingram5 Cicero and the American FoundersCarl J. Richard6 Cicero’s Quarrels: Reception and Modernity from Horace to TacitusAlex DresslerPart 3 - Two French Receptions7 Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero: A Politics and a Friendship to ComePaul Allen Miller8 Ancient Texts, Contemporary Stakes: J. Carcopino as Reader of Cicero’s LettersCarlos LévyPart 4 - German Reception and Its Influence9 Cicero and the Fourth Triumvirate: Gruen, Syme, and StrasburgerWilliam H. F. Altman10 Damaged Go(o)ds: Cicero’s Theological Triad in the Wake of German HistoricismElisabeth BegemannPart 5 - Cicero Divided11 Roman Plato or Roman Demosthenes? The Bifurcation of Cicero in Ancient ScholarshipCaroline Bishop12 What the Middle Ages Missed of Cicero, and WhyJohn O. WardPart 6 - Cicero Restored13 Cicero, Voltaire, and the Philosophes in the French EnlightenmentMatthew Sharpe14 Following Their Own Genius: Debates on Ciceronianism in 16th-Century ItalyJoAnn DellaNevaSelect BibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral Index