Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus (eBook)

The Invention of Literary History

Christopher S. van den Berg (Autor)

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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-28137-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-009-28137-2 / 1009281372
• ISBN-13: 978-1-009-28137-9 / 9781009281379