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Portraying Cicero in literature, culture, and politics : from ancient to modern times /

Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berno, Francesca Romana (Editor ), La Bua, Giuseppe (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • SECTION I: Portraying (and Defending) Himself
  • Cicero Portraying Cicero
  • Mihi cane et populo: Cicerone e l'autorappresentazione del successo oratorio. La questione del consenso popolare (Cic. Brut. 183-200)
  • A Ciceronian exemplum: Cicero's Self-Portrait as Provincial Governor through his Letters
  • Cicerone esule: dall'autorappresentazione all'esemplarità letteraria (da Livio a Petrarca e Ortensio Lando)
  • The Difficult Defense of Cicero's Goodness in Institutio oratoria 12.1
  • SECTION II: Cicero's Exemplarity
  • Homo novus and nobilis: Cicero and the formation of the 'modern' aristocracy
  • Cicero at the Symposium XII Sapientum
  • Iconografía de Cicerón en manuscritos: Un testimonio de Recepción clásica
  • Il "santissimo" Cicerone. La Quaestura di Sebastiano Corradi (1555) nella tradizione biografica sull'Arpinate
  • Tully the Naïve: John Adams on Cicero
  • Law & Orator: Depicting Cicero through Modern Mystery Fiction
  • SECTION III: The Portrait of the Ideal Orator
  • The reception of Cicero's speeches in the early empire
  • Quintilian on Cicero's Deliberative Oratory
  • Quousque tandem: The Reception of a Catchphrase
  • Da iocosus a consularis scurra. Rappresentazioni del Cicerone umorista
  • Reperforming Cicero's Voice: Constructions and Negotiations of his vox publica
  • SECTION IV: Cicero in Politics
  • Montesquieu on Cicero. Historiographical, political, and philosophical dimensions of a modern portrait
  • Cicero in the Shadow of the Bastille
  • Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920-1945
  • Bibliography
  • Index locorum
  • General Index