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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009281386
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Book description

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.

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Contents

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  • The Politics and Poetics of Cicero’s Brutus
    pp i-ii
  • The Politics and Poetics of Cicero’s Brutus - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • The Invention of Literary History
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
    pp ix-xi
  • A Note on the Text
    pp xii-xii
  • Abbreviations
    pp xiii-xiv
  • Additional material
    pp xv-xvi
  • Introduction
    pp 1-19
  • Chapter 1 - Ciceropaideia
    pp 20-43
  • Chapter 2 - The Intellectual Genealogy of the Brutus
    pp 44-74
  • Chapter 3 - Caesar and the Political Crisis
    pp 75-101
  • Chapter 4 - Truthmaking and the Past
    pp 102-134
  • Chapter 5 - Beginning (and) Literary History
    pp 135-164
  • Chapter 6 - Perfecting Literary History
    pp 165-190
  • Chapter 7 - Cicero’s Attici
    pp 191-216
  • Chapter 8 - Minerva, Venus, and Cicero’s Judgments on Caesar’s Style
    pp 217-243
  • Conclusion
    pp 244-255
  • References
    pp 256-280
  • General Index
    pp 281-287
  • Index Locorum
    pp 288-290

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