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The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history
- Title
- The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history / Christopher S. van den Berg.
- Author
- Van den Berg, Christopher Sean
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 290 pages; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-9088
- ISBN
- 9781108495950
- 1108495958
- 9781108811354
- 1108811353
- LCCN
- 2021024758
- OCLC
- 1245343825
- Author
- Van den Berg, Christopher Sean, author.
- Title
- The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus : the invention of literary history / Christopher S. van den Berg.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: van den Berg, Christopher S. Politics and poetics of cicero's brutus 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108856447 (DLC) 2021024759
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-9088