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The Roman Republic of Letters : Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar /

"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 cam...

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Autor principal: Volk, Katharina, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Res publica of letters -- Engaged philosophy -- Philosophy after Pharsalus -- The invention of Rome -- Coopting the cosmos -- Conclusion. 
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