The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history
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The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-280) and indexes
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内容説明
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 studies 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
目次
- 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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