The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus

The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781009281348
ISBN-13 : 1009281348
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Book Synopsis The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus by : Christopher S. van den Berg

Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus written by Christopher S. van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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