TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van den Berg,Christopher Sean
TI  - The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus: the invention of literary history 
SN  - 9781009281386
AV  - PA6296.B7 V36 2023
U1  - 875.01 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
N1  - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index; Open access; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281386
ER  -