The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history /

The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history /

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Author / Creator:	Van den Berg, Christopher Sean, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Cicero, Marcus Tullius. -- Brutus. Brutus (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12691193

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ISBN:	9781108495950 1108495958 9781108811354 1108811353 9781108856447 9781108856980 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 is the first study of 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"--
Other form:	Online version: van den Berg, Christopher S. Politics and poetics of cicero's brutus 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108856447

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