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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Online publication date:
- July 2023
- Print publication year:
- 2023
- Online ISBN:
- 9781009281386
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- Subjects:
- Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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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.
‘With this book, Christopher van den Berg has undoubtedly earned the right to occupy a place of absolute prominence in the increasingly dense shelves of critical production on Brutus.’
Alberto Cavarzere Source: Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica
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