Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches

Dennis Pausch, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor Latin at Philipps-Universität Marburg. His research interests include Roman historiography and Augustan poetry, but also focus on invective texts, among others the speeches written by Cicero.Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008), is University Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. His research focuses on Roman oratory, especially Cicero and the Ciceronian tradition, and on the literature of 15th-century Florence.Contributors are: Caroline Bishop, Joseph Farrell, Thomas J. Keeline, Giuseppe La Bua, Fernanda Maffei, Gesine Manuwald, Giovanni Margiotta, Christoph Pieper, Thomas Riesenweber, Christoph Schwameis.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionChristoph Pieper and Dennis Pausch1 Teaching Cicero through the Scholia: the ‘Active Reader’ in Late Antique Commentaries on Cicero’s SpeechesGiuseppe La Bua2 The Working Methods of AsconiusThomas J. Keeline3 Cicero in Egypt: the Ciceronian Papyri and the Teaching of Latin in the EastFernanda Maffei4 Ciceros Reden bei den Rhetores Latini MinoresThomas Riesenweber5 The Canonization of Cicero in Ancient CommentariesJoseph Farrell6 The Influence of Greek Commentaries on the Bobbio Scholia to CiceroCaroline Bishop7 The Ciceronian Scholia and Asconius as Sources on Cicero and Other Roman Republican OratorsGesine Manuwald8 ‘Cicero Cannot Be Separated from the State’: In Search for Cicero’s Political and Moral Exemplarity in Asconius and the Scholia BobiensiaChristoph Pieper9 Deinceps haec omnia non dicta, sed scripta contra reum: The Fictional Verrines in the Ciceronian Scholia and beyondChristoph Schwameis10 Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian OrationsGiovanni MargiottaIndex