Author: Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426239
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.
The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire
Author: Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426239
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426239
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.
The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire
Author: Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108639976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a 'new man' and leading a complex and contradictory life. After his murder in 43 BC, he was indeed remembered for his life and his works - but not for all of them. This book explores Cicero's reception in the early Roman Empire, showing what was remembered and why. It argues that early imperial politics and Cicero's schoolroom canonization had pervasive effects on his reception, with declamation and the schoolroom mediating and even creating his memory in subsequent generations. The way he was deployed in the schools was foundational to the version of Cicero found in literature and the educated imagination in the early Roman Empire, yielding a man stripped of the complex contradictions of his own lifetime and polarized into a literary and political symbol.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108639976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a 'new man' and leading a complex and contradictory life. After his murder in 43 BC, he was indeed remembered for his life and his works - but not for all of them. This book explores Cicero's reception in the early Roman Empire, showing what was remembered and why. It argues that early imperial politics and Cicero's schoolroom canonization had pervasive effects on his reception, with declamation and the schoolroom mediating and even creating his memory in subsequent generations. The way he was deployed in the schools was foundational to the version of Cicero found in literature and the educated imagination in the early Roman Empire, yielding a man stripped of the complex contradictions of his own lifetime and polarized into a literary and political symbol.
Cicero and Roman Education
Author: Giuseppe La Bua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068584
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068584
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.
Cicero's Political Personae
Author: Joanna Kenty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839460
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Provides new insights into Cicero's political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108839460
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Provides new insights into Cicero's political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose.
Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic
Author: Caroline Bishop
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192564803
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the value of humanistic pursuits is both deep and profound. However, despite the significance of subsequent reception in ensuring his canonical status, Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic demonstrates that no one is more responsible for Cicero's transformation into a classic than Cicero himself, and that in his literary works he laid the groundwork for the ways in which he is still remembered today. The volume presents a new way of understanding Cicero's career as an author by situating his textual production within the context of the growth of Greek classicism: the movement had begun to flourish shortly before his lifetime and he clearly grasped its benefits both for himself and for Roman literature more broadly. By strategically adapting classic texts from the Greek world, and incorporating into his adaptations the interpretations of the Hellenistic philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and scientists who had helped enshrine those works as classics, he could envision and create texts with classical authority for a parallel Roman canon. Ranging across a variety of genres - including philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, poetry, and letters - this close study of Cicero's literary works moves from his early translation of Aratus' poetry (and its later reappearance through self-quotation) to Platonizing philosophy, Aristotelian rhetoric, Demosthenic oratory, and even a planned Greek-style letter collection. Juxtaposing incisive analysis of how Cicero consciously adopted classical Greek writers as models and predecessors with detailed accounts of the reception of those figures by Greek scholars of the Hellenistic period, the volume not only offers ground-breaking new insights into Cicero's ascension to canonical status, but also a salutary new account of Greek intellectual life and its effect on Roman literature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192564803
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the value of humanistic pursuits is both deep and profound. However, despite the significance of subsequent reception in ensuring his canonical status, Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic demonstrates that no one is more responsible for Cicero's transformation into a classic than Cicero himself, and that in his literary works he laid the groundwork for the ways in which he is still remembered today. The volume presents a new way of understanding Cicero's career as an author by situating his textual production within the context of the growth of Greek classicism: the movement had begun to flourish shortly before his lifetime and he clearly grasped its benefits both for himself and for Roman literature more broadly. By strategically adapting classic texts from the Greek world, and incorporating into his adaptations the interpretations of the Hellenistic philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and scientists who had helped enshrine those works as classics, he could envision and create texts with classical authority for a parallel Roman canon. Ranging across a variety of genres - including philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, poetry, and letters - this close study of Cicero's literary works moves from his early translation of Aratus' poetry (and its later reappearance through self-quotation) to Platonizing philosophy, Aristotelian rhetoric, Demosthenic oratory, and even a planned Greek-style letter collection. Juxtaposing incisive analysis of how Cicero consciously adopted classical Greek writers as models and predecessors with detailed accounts of the reception of those figures by Greek scholars of the Hellenistic period, the volume not only offers ground-breaking new insights into Cicero's ascension to canonical status, but also a salutary new account of Greek intellectual life and its effect on Roman literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
Author: C. E. W. Steel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521509939
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521509939
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Romantic Antiquity
Author: Jonathan Sachs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195376129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195376129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself.
Cicero's Law
Author: Paul J. du Plessis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408842
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408842
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.
Ancient Rome and Modern America
Author: Margaret Malamud
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444305085
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role thenarratives and images of Rome have played in America’sunderstanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historicalcontext, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at portrayals of Rome in different media: writing,architecture, theatre, painting, World’s Fairs andExpositions, and film Beautifully illustrated with over 40 high quality photographsand figures
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444305085
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role thenarratives and images of Rome have played in America’sunderstanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historicalcontext, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at portrayals of Rome in different media: writing,architecture, theatre, painting, World’s Fairs andExpositions, and film Beautifully illustrated with over 40 high quality photographsand figures
The Ancient Middle Classes
Author: Emanuel Mayer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065344
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
"Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman times--art, architecture, and household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewhere--belonged to, and was made for, artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes, Emanuel Mayer boldly argues, turns out to be distinctly middle class and requires a radically new framework of analysis. Starting in the first century B.C.E., ancient communities, largely shaped by farmers living within city walls, were transformed into vibrant urban centers where wealth could be quickly acquired through commercial success. From 100 B.C.E. to 250 C.E., the archaeological record details the growth of a cosmopolitan empire and a prosperous new class rising along with it. Not as keen as statesmen and intellectuals to show off their status and refinement, members of this new middle class found novel ways to create pleasure and meaning. In the décor of their houses and tombs, Mayer finds evidence that middle-class Romans took pride in their work and commemorated familial love and affection in ways that departed from the tastes and practices of social elites."--Jacket.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065344
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
"Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman times--art, architecture, and household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewhere--belonged to, and was made for, artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes, Emanuel Mayer boldly argues, turns out to be distinctly middle class and requires a radically new framework of analysis. Starting in the first century B.C.E., ancient communities, largely shaped by farmers living within city walls, were transformed into vibrant urban centers where wealth could be quickly acquired through commercial success. From 100 B.C.E. to 250 C.E., the archaeological record details the growth of a cosmopolitan empire and a prosperous new class rising along with it. Not as keen as statesmen and intellectuals to show off their status and refinement, members of this new middle class found novel ways to create pleasure and meaning. In the décor of their houses and tombs, Mayer finds evidence that middle-class Romans took pride in their work and commemorated familial love and affection in ways that departed from the tastes and practices of social elites."--Jacket.