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The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero - Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover, Critical)
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The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero - Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover, Critical)
Series: Sozomena
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This work covers the history of the text of the invectives of
Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust. Though these
speeches seem unsophisticated to some, they are in fact of
considerable importance. The question of the authenticity of both
invectives, especially of the invective against Cicero, considered
in the book diachronically, has long troubled scholars, commencing
with Quintilian's quotation from the text as though it were
authentic. This dispute continues down to our own time. In all
probability, both invectives are a product of the rhetorical
schools of Rome, as students at such schools might have been set
the task of writing a speech against Cicero imitating Sallust, or
of responding to Sallust in the style of Cicero. Thus, we possess a
sample of rhetorical school exercises, preserved due to their
similarities to the prototypes on which they were modelled. The
work covers: the full manuscript tradition of the text and also the
history of the changes which arose during its transmission, the
history of the printed text and the text itself with an apparatus
criticus and also a translation. This work should be of interest to
classicists, philologists interested in the history of medieval and
renaissance texts, and also to those erudite readers concerned with
rhetorical style and the functioning of the rhetorical schools of
Rome.
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