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The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire
Thomas J. Keeline
其他書名
The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2018-07-26
主題
Foreign Language Study / Latin
History / Ancient / General
History / Ancient / Rome
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN
1108426239
9781108426237
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CTdgDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.