The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became seminal texts in political theory and in the reception and study of the Classics. This Companion discusses the whole range of Cicero's writings, with particular emphasis on their links with the literary culture of the late Republic, their significance to Cicero's public career and their reception in later periods.
- Comprehensive introduction by a distinguished international team of scholars employing the latest research
- Discusses Cicero as a literary figure, while at the same time paying due attention to his intellectual and historical context
- Includes substantial coverage on Cicero's reception in late antiquity and from the Renaissance period onwards
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Product details
June 2013Paperback
9780521729802
441 pages
228 × 153 × 20 mm
0.71kg
1 map
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Catherine Steel
- Part I. The Greco-Roman Intellectual:
- 1. Cicero and the intellectual milieu of the late Republic Anthony Corbeill
- 2. Cicero's rhetorical theory John Dugan
- 3. Cicero's style J. G. F. Powell
- 4. Writing philosophy Malcolm Schofield
- 5. Cicero's poetry Emma Gee
- 6. The law in Cicero's writings Jill Harries
- 7. Cicero and Roman identity Emma Dench
- Part II. The Roman Politician:
- 8. The political impact of Cicero's speeches Ann Vasaly
- 9. Cicero, oratory, and public life Catherine Steel
- 10. Cicero, tradition, and performance Andrew Bell
- 11. Political philosophy James E. G. Zetzel
- 12. Writer and addressee in Cicero's letters Ruth Morello
- 13. Saviour of the Republic and Father of the Fatherland: Cicero and political crisis Jon Hall
- Part III. Receptions of Cicero:
- 14. Tully's boat: responses to Cicero in the imperial period Alain M. Gowing
- 15. Cicero in late antiquity Sabine MacCormack
- 16. Cicero in the Renaissance David Marsh
- 17. Cicero during the Enlightenment Matthew Fox
- 18. Nineteenth-century Ciceros Nicholas P. Cole
- 19. Twentieth/twenty-first-century Cicero(s) Lynn S. Fotheringham.
