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|a Van den Berg, Christopher Sean
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|a The politics and poetics of Cicero's Brutus
|b the invention of literary history
|c Christopher S. van den Berg
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|a Cambridge
|b Cambridge University Press
|c 2023
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|a xiii, 290 pages
|b digital
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index
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|a Cicero, Marcus Tullius / Brutus
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|a Cambridge Books Online
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|a 10.1017/9781009281386
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|a 10.1017/9781009281386
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|u https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281386
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|a 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
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