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Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2016
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In attempting to summarize recent developments and the present position in Ciceronian studies I have had to make somewhat arbitrary decisions in the matters of arrangement, selection, and approach.
Cicero’s writings fall into well-recognized groups: speeches, letters, writings on philosophy and rhetoric, and verse. I have followed precedent in treating the philosophical and rhetorical writings separately and last, and my own inclination in saying nothing of the verse. But the man is more than his writings, and I have in the main related consideration of the speeches and letters to the discussion of his life, and accordingly shall say little of purely linguistic and textual work in these fields.
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page no 1 note 1 For a fair and sensitive assessment of Cicero’s verse cf.Townend, G. B., ‘The Poems’ in Studies in Latin Literature andits Influence: Cicero, ed. Dorey, T. A. (London, 1965), 109 ffGoogle Scholar. This collection of essays is referred to hereafter as ‘Dorey’.
page no 1 note 2 (i) Watt, W. S., CQ xliii (1949), 9 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar; (ii) Lily Ross, Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (Berkeley, 1949), 112 ff.Google Scholar; (iii) Syme, R., JRS xxxiv (1944), 105 Google Scholar; Astin, A. E., Scipio Aemilianus (Oxford, 1967)Google Scholar, Appendix VI; (iv) Brunt, P. A., Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. N.s. xi (1965), 1 ffGoogle Scholar.
page no 1 note 3 J. Marouzeau’s L’Année philologique is indispensable, especially in summarizing articles in periodicals; it cannot of course cover all the incidental discussions and allusions in books.
page no 2 note 1 Badian, E., Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic (Pretoria, 1967), 56 Google Scholar.
page no 2 note 2 But nobody could master it all: the informed reader (but Persium non curo legere, Laelium Decimum volo) must decide for himself whether to attribute omissions to policy or ignorance. The bibliographical references are in any case meant only as signposts. I have not added ‘and works there cited’ in the many places where it could apply, and generally citation of a work in reference to a particular point should be taken as a hint that the whole work is valuable: exceptions will, I think, be fairly obvious.
page no 2 note 3 The very helpful surveys of work on Cicero’s rhetorical and philosophical writings in Classical World (p. 27, n. 1) also contain sections with such titles as ‘Personality and Aims’, ‘The Man and his Outlook’, and give concise but lively indications of the compiler’s own views. On the political side there are surveys by Allen, W., CW xlvii (1954), 29 ff.Google Scholar, and Rowland, R. J., CW lx (1966-7), 51 ff.Google Scholar, 101 ff.
page no 3 note 1 Two well-known books, Cowell, F. R., Cicero and the Roman Republic (London, 1948)Google Scholar and Smith, R. E., Cicero the Statesman (Cambridge, 1966)Google Scholar, come near to achieving this.
page no 3 note 2 Cf.Henderson, M. I., JRS lvii (1967), 246 Google Scholar, reviewing Smith’s book: ‘As Klingner has remarked, most historical treatments of Cicero still run in nineteenth-century grooves—Anklageschriften or Apologien, no matter which.’
page no 3 note 3 Report of the Colloquium on the Classics in Education (American Council of Learned Societies, 1965), 21. The second part of this paper appeared under the title ‘The critical study of literature’ in Didaskalos ii. (1) (1966). 15 . The later quotations are from pp. 19 and 22 of the Report.
page no 4 note 1 Syme, R., The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939), 4 Google Scholar. I refer to this work hereafter as ‘Syme’.