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The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
Christopher S. van den Berg
其他書名
The Invention of Literary History
出版Cambridge University Press, 2023-07-20
主題Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN10092813489781009281348
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UdfLEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.