Brill's companion to the reception of Cicero

Author(s)

• Altman, William H. F.

Bibliographic Information

Brill's companion to the reception of Cicero

edited by William H.F. Altman

（Brill's companions to classical reception, v. 2）

Brill, c2015

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the study of Cicero's writings with greater interest and respect.

Table of Contents

Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction William H. F. Altman Part 1 - Imitation or Criticism? 1 Petrarch and Cicero: Adulation and Critical Distance Martin McLaughlin 2 Cicero's Portion of Montaigne's Acclaim Kathy Eden 3 Lactantius as Christian Cicero, Cicero as Shadow-like Instructor Gabor Kendeffy Part 2 - The Politics of Reception 4 Conyers Middleton's Cicero: Enlightenment, Scholarship, and Polemic Robert G. Ingram 5 Cicero and the American Founders Carl J. Richard 6 Cicero's Quarrels: Reception and Modernity from Horace to Tacitus Alex Dressler Part 3 - Two French Receptions 7 Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero: A Politics and a Friendship to Come Paul Allen Miller 8 Ancient Texts, Contemporary Stakes: J. Carcopino as Reader of Cicero's Letters Carlos Levy Part 4 - German Reception and Its Influence 9 Cicero and the Fourth Triumvirate: Gruen, Syme, and Strasburger William H. F. Altman 10 Damaged Go(o)ds: Cicero's Theological Triad in the Wake of German Historicism Elisabeth Begemann Part 5 - Cicero Divided 11 Roman Plato or Roman Demosthenes? The Bifurcation of Cicero in Ancient Scholarship Caroline Bishop 12 What the Middle Ages Missed of Cicero, and Why John O. Ward Part 6 - Cicero Restored 13 Cicero, Voltaire, and the Philosophes in the French Enlightenment Matthew Sharpe 14 Following Their Own Genius: Debates on Ciceronianism in 16th-Century Italy JoAnn DellaNeva Select Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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Details

• NCID: BB20949398
• ISBN:
  • 9789004235267
• LCCN: 2015009625
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 402 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA6346
  • DC23 : 875/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Appreciation
  • LCSH : Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Influence
  • LCSH : Ciceronianism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB17727398