The Politics And Poetics Of Ciceros Brutus

Author : Christopher S. van den Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009281348
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus written by Christopher S. van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Sean Van den Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009281386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus written by Christopher Sean Van den Berg and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert A. Kaster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190857862
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero: Brutus and Orator written by Robert A. Kaster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early second century to 46 BCE, when both of these treatises were written. In an immensely detailed account of some 200 speakers from the past he dispenses an expert's praise and criticism, provides an unparalleled resource for the study of Roman rhetoric, and engages delicately with the fraught political circumstances of the day, when the dominance of Julius Caesar was assured and the future of Rome's political institutions was thrown into question. The Orator, written several months later, describes the form of oratory that Cicero most admired, even though he insists that neither he nor any other orator has been able to achieve it. At the same time, he defends his views against critics-the so-called Atticists-who found Cicero's style overwrought and favored a more restrained and plainer approach.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN 13 : 9781438516370
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Brutus Or History of Famous Orators written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero is considered to be Rome's greatest orator and prose writer. His writing is some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero introduced Rome to Greek philosophy and created the Latin philosophical vocabulary. This book contains two selections. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators was written during the end of the civil war in Africa. It discusses all the Roman and Greek speakers of any note at the time. The conference is supposed to have been held with Atticus, and their friend Brutus. The Orator was written shortly after and is a plan, or critical delineation, of what he esteemed the most finished eloquence, or style of Speaking.

Author : G. V. Sumner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598183491
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orators in Cicero's Brutus written by G. V. Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cicero
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511464611
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Brutus Or History of Famous Orators written by Cicero and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators" from Cicero. Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist (106-43 BC).

Author : Kathryn Tempest
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 184725246X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero written by Kathryn Tempest and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the greatest Roman orator, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous accounts of the murder, corruption and violence that plagued Rome in the first century BC, his surviving letters give an exceptional glimpse into Cicero's own personality and his reactions to events as they unraveled around him û events, he thought, which threatened to destabilize the system of government he loved and establish a tyranny over Rome. From his rise to power as a self-made man, Cicero's career took him through the years of Sulla, and the civil war between Pompey and Caesar, to his own last fight against Mark Antony. We witness the turbulent events of the Late Roman Republic through Cicero's eyes. Drawing chiefly on Cicero's speeches and letters, and up-to-date research, Kathryn Tempest presents a new, highly readable narrative of Cicero's dramatic life and times.

Author : Katharina Volk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691253951
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Republic of Letters written by Katharina Volk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503367623
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Brutus Or History of Famous Orator written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]Thus it happened, among other misfortunes of a more deplorable nature, that when my declining age, after a life spent in the service of the Public, should have reposed in the peaceful harbour, not of an indolent, and a total inactivity, but of a moderate and becoming retirement; and when my eloquence was properly mellowed, and had acquired its full maturity;-thus it happened, I say, that recourse was then had to those fatal arms, which the persons who had learned the use of them in honourable conquest, could no longer employ to any salutary purpose. Those, therefore, appear to me to have enjoyed a fortunate and a happy life, (of whatever State they were members, but especially in our's) who held their authority and reputation, either for their military or political services, without interruption: and the sole [...]".

Author : Marcus Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781976451249
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Brutus written by Marcus Cicero and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's Brutus (also known as De claris oratibus) is a history of Roman oratory. It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which Brutus and Atticus ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time. Cicero then attempts to propose a reconstruction of Roman history. It should be noted that while it is written in the form of a dialogue, the majority of the talking is done by Cicero with occasional intervention by Brutus and Atticus. The work was probably composed in 46 BC, with the purpose of defending Cicero's own oratory. He begins with an introductory section on Greek oratory of the Attic, Asianic, and Rhodian schools, before discussing Roman orators, beginning with Lucius Junius Brutus, "The Liberator", though becoming more specific from the time of Marcus Cornelius Cethegus. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.