The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
€ 38,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781009281355 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Christopher S. van den Berg |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 308 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,450 |
| Data de Publicação | 20/07/2023 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 36,70 |
| Imposto | € 2,20 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 38,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 3 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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.