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- Book Title
- Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic
- ISBN-13
- 9780198829423
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198829426
ISBN-13
9780198829423
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038273292
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic
Subject
Ancient / Rome, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
25.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-949664
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"...another book of deep erudition, wide range, and intelligent exposition." -- Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge, "Learned, insightful, and wide-ranging, Bishop has produced a study of Ciceronian literary classicism that is sure to enjoy a long afterlife on scholars' bookshelves and bibliographies. Even Cicero would have asked for little else." -- Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Bryn Mawr Classics Review "...another book of deep erudition, wide range, and intelligent exposition." -- Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge, "Learned, insightful, and wide-ranging, Bishop has produced a study of Ciceronian literary classicism that is sure to enjoy a long afterlife on scholars' bookshelves and bibliographies. Even Cicero would have asked for little else." -- Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Bryn Mawr Classics Review"...another book of deep erudition, wide range, and intelligent exposition." -- Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
Dewey Decimal
937.05092
Table Of Content
FrontmatterTexts and AbbreviationsIntroduction0.1 Cicero's intellectual politics: textual production as a new man0.2 Greek intellectual culture and Roman classicism0.3 Graecus et scholasticus: Roman ambivalence towards Greek culture0.4 Intellectual and scholastic culture in Republican Rome0.5 Conclusion and chapter summary1. Aratus1.1 Cicero and the virtues of translation1.2 Aratus' Phaenomena1.3 The Phaenomena in Hellenistic Greece1.4 Cicero's Aratea1.5 Conclusion2. Plato2.1 The features of Cicero's Plato2.2 Plato in Philo's Academy2.3 Plato in Antiochus' Academy2.4 Scepticism and syncretism in Cicero's Timaeus2.5 Conclusion3. Aristotle3.1 The features of Cicero's Aristotle3.2 Aristotle, Philo, and in utramque partem debate3.3 Aristotle in Cicero's rhetorical works3.4 Conclusion4. Demosthenes4.1 Demosthenes' Hellenistic reputation4.2 Demosthenes in Cicero's early career4.3 Demosthenes, tyranny, and Atticism in Cicero's late career4.3.1 Brutus4.3.2 De Optimo Genere Oratorum and Orator4.3.3 The Philippics5. Letters5.1 Cicero and the world of Greek letters5.1.1 Greek (and Roman) epistolary theory5.1.2 Greek letter collections5.2 Cicero's (planned) letter collection5.3 Conclusion6. Cicero6.1 Modelling reception in the philosophical dialogues6.2 Hellenistic philosophy and Roman poetry in the philosophical dialogues6.3 The Aratea in De Natura Deorum6.4 Cicero's poetry in De Divinatione6.5 Conclusion7. ConclusionEndmatterBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the value of humanistic pursuits is both deep and profound. However, despite the significance of subsequent reception in ensuring his canonical status, Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic demonstrates that no one is more responsible for Cicero's transformation into a classic than Cicero himself, and that in his literary works he laid the groundwork for the ways in which he is still remembered today. The volume presents a new way of understanding Cicero's career as an author by situating his textual production within the context of the growth of Greek classicism: the movement had begun to flourish shortly before his lifetime and he clearly grasped its benefits both for himself and for Roman literature more broadly. By strategically adapting classic texts from the Greek world, and incorporating into his adaptations the interpretations of the Hellenistic philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and scientists who had helped enshrine those works as classics, he could envision and create texts with classical authority for a parallel Roman canon. Ranging across a variety of genres - including philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, poetry, and letters - this close study of Cicero's literary works moves from his early translation of Aratus' poetry (and its later reappearance through self-quotation) to Platonizing philosophy, Aristotelian rhetoric, Demosthenic oratory, and even a planned Greek-style letter collection. Juxtaposing incisive analysis of how Cicero consciously adopted classical Greek writers as models and predecessors with detailed accounts of the reception of those figures by Greek scholars of the Hellenistic period, the volume not only offers ground-breaking new insights into Cicero's ascension to canonical status, but also a salutary new account of Greek intellectual life and its effect on Roman literature., The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a classic, though only in part due to his subsequent reception. This volume demonstrates how Cicero's strategic adaptation of classic Greek texts allowed him to envision and create texts with classical authority for a parallel Roman canon.
LC Classification Number
DG260.C5
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