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Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic (Hardcover)
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Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman Classic (Hardcover)
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The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is
the embodiment of a classic: his works have been read continuously
from antiquity to the present, his style is considered the model
for classical Latin, and his influence on Western ideas about the
value of humanistic pursuits is both deep and profound. However,
despite the significance of subsequent reception in ensuring his
canonical status, Cicero, Greek Learning, and the Making of a Roman
Classic demonstrates that no one is more responsible for Cicero's
transformation into a classic than Cicero himself, and that in his
literary works he laid the groundwork for the ways in which he is
still remembered today. The volume presents a new way of
understanding Cicero's career as an author by situating his textual
production within the context of the growth of Greek classicism:
the movement had begun to flourish shortly before his lifetime and
he clearly grasped its benefits both for himself and for Roman
literature more broadly. By strategically adapting classic texts
from the Greek world, and incorporating into his adaptations the
interpretations of the Hellenistic philosophers, poets,
rhetoricians, and scientists who had helped enshrine those works as
classics, he could envision and create texts with classical
authority for a parallel Roman canon. Ranging across a variety of
genres - including philosophy, rhetoric, oratory, poetry, and
letters - this close study of Cicero's literary works moves from
his early translation of Aratus' poetry (and its later reappearance
through self-quotation) to Platonizing philosophy, Aristotelian
rhetoric, Demosthenic oratory, and even a planned Greek-style
letter collection. Juxtaposing incisive analysis of how Cicero
consciously adopted classical Greek writers as models and
predecessors with detailed accounts of the reception of those
figures by Greek scholars of the Hellenistic period, the volume not
only offers ground-breaking new insights into Cicero's ascension to
canonical status, but also a salutary new account of Greek
intellectual life and its effect on Roman literature.
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