The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
€38.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781009281355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher S. van den Berg |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 308 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.450 |
| Publishing Date | 20/07/2023 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €36.70 |
| Tax | €2.20 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €38.90 |
| Availability | 3 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.