Research Catalog

Title

Pro Milone / edited by Thomas J. Keeline.

Author

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

Keeline, Thomas J.

Description

xix, 381 pages : 3 maps; 21 cm.

Summary

"In my perhaps biased opinion, the Pro Milone is Cicero's best speech. And now that I've finished writing a commentary on it, well, I feel just about ready to start writing one. But life is short, and I've already spent more time thinking about this speech than Cicero himself ever did. So: manum de tabula! My goal in this book is to help students and scholars understand the Pro Milone both as a literary masterpiece and as a historical document. Much of the commentary is an attempt to build a bridge between what we know today and what Cicero's contemporary audience would have known. Now this is ultimately an unbridgeable gap - Cicero's contemporaries were native speakers of Latin who knew the people involved in the trial and had an intuitive grasp of the social and political background to the case, to say nothing of their shared cultural knowledge of Roman life and the Roman world more generally ca. 52 bc. Today we can only do our best to reconstruct that knowledge by diligent philology, careful historical work, and constant attention to Cicero's rhetorical artistry. Our reconstruction will necessarily remain fragmentary and incomplete. But I don't think we should despair: even if the gap between us and them is unbridgeable, we can still make a lot of progress, and the journey itself has much to offer"--

Series Statement

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Uniform Title

• Pro Milone. Latin (Keeline)
• Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.

Alternative Title

Pro Milone.

Subject

• Milo, Titus Annius, -48 B.C
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius > Criticism and interpretation
• Pro Milone (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin

Genre/Form

• Commentaries.
• Speeches.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Latin.

Call Number

JFD 21-3567

ISBN

• 9781107179738
• 1107179734
• 9781316631447
• 1316631443

LCCN

• 2021009037
• 16965461

OCLC

1242018225

Author

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.

Title

Pro Milone / edited by Thomas J. Keeline.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

Cambridge Greek and Latin classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Text in English and Latin.

Added Author

Keeline, Thomas J., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Cicero: pro milone 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781316841013 (DLC) 2021009038

Other Standard Identifier

16965461

Research Call Number

JFD 21-3567