Van den Berg, Christopher Sean, <br/><br/>
The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus :  the invention of literary history / 
Christopher S. van den Berg. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) :  digital, PDF file(s) 
<br/><br/> Also issued in print: 2023. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Open access. 
<br/><br/> Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book is the first study of the work from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives: Cicero's account of oratorical history, the confrontation with Caesar, and the exploration of what it means to write a history of an artistic practice. Close readings of this dialogue-including its apparent contradictions and tendentious fabrications-reveal a crucial and crucially productive moment in Greco-Roman thought. Cicero, this book argues, created the first nuanced, sophisticated, and ultimately 'modern' literary history, crafting both a compelling justification of Rome's oratorical traditions and also laying a foundation for literary historiography that abides to this day. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 
<br/><br/> Specialized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781009281386  No price  No price 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1017/9781009281386  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PA6296.B7  / V36 2023 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>875.01