Recensione a: Caroline Bishop, Cicero, Greek Learning and the Making of a Classic, Oxford 2019, in “Latomus” (forthcoming)
Recensione al volume di Caroline Bishop, Cicero, Greek Learning and the Making of a Classic, Oxford 2019
Cicero
Cicero and Roman education. The reception of the speeches and ancient scholarship
Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of statesman and orator. He memorialized his spiritual and oratorical self by a very solid textual body. Educationists and schoolteachers in antiquity relied on Cicero’s oratory to supervise the intellectual maturation of the young.
Late Ciceronian scholarship and Virgilian exegesis. Servius and ps. Asconius
Ps.-Asconius’ linguistic commentary on Cicero’s divinatio in Caecilium and part of the Verrines (in Verrem 1, act. 2.1 and 2.2.1-35) has been included in the canon of ancient commentaries relying on Servius for much of their material.
Man of peace? Cicero's last fight for the Republic in Greek and Roman historical 'fictions'
Cicero’s involvement in the political crisis of the Late Republic elicited divergent reactions from historians, declaimers and men of letters in the early imperial period. In particular, Cicero’s controversial role in the outbreak of the civil war of 49-45 BCE ignited a fierce debate over his political legacy and the role he played in the violent transition from the Republic to the imperial regime.