Reading Cicero’s final years : : receptions of the Post-Caesarian works up to the Sixteenth Century – with two Epilogues / / edited by Christoph Pieper and Bram van der Velden.

This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final years have shaped Cicero’s reception in an special way, as they have condensed an...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Cicero
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Summary of the Chapters
  • Introduction
  • Were Cicero’s Philippics the Cause of his Death?
  • The Thrill of Defeat
  • Ille regit dictis animos
  • Man of Peace?
  • Libera uoluntas
  • Ciceronian Reception in the Epistula ad Octauianum
  • Can it Ever be Wise to Kill the Tyrant?
  • Bruni, Cicero, and their Manifesto for Republicanism
  • Multilayered Appropriation(s)
  • Marc-Antoine Muret and his Lectures on Cicero’s De officiis
  • First Epilogue
  • Second Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Nominum