Autore: Peer, Ayelet
Titolo: Cassius Dio, Cicero, and the complexity of civil war
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Carsten H. Lange, Andrew G. Scott (ed.), Cassius Dio : the impact of violence, war, and civil war, (Historiography of Rome and its Empire, 8), Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020. X-358 p.
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 219-240
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: [This chapter] aims to examine Dio’s views on civil war as they are expressed in two speeches he composed for Cicero; one speech comes just after Caesar’s murder in 44 BCE, and another half a year later against Antonius. (…) Therefore, if he chose to add speeches at these historical junctions, it indicates their importance to him and to his literary and historical agenda. Whereas the first speech pleads for concord and peace, the second speech is a fervent harangue against Antonius, with the demand to declare him a public enemy. This use of Cicero’s militant rhetoric enables Dio to achieve two goals – the first is to provide justification for Young Caesar’s later triumph in a civil war by deeming the war against Antonius necessary and even justified. The second is to show and even criticize the conduct of a senator of the Late Republic. Dio’s view on the role of a senator during civil war was quite different than Cicero’s. In fact, it is plausible to argue, according to the following analysis, that Dio uses the image of Cicero as an example of how a senator should not act. [Author]
Sigla autore: Peer 2020
Titolo: Cassius Dio, Cicero, and the complexity of civil war
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Carsten H. Lange, Andrew G. Scott (ed.), Cassius Dio : the impact of violence, war, and civil war, (Historiography of Rome and its Empire, 8), Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2020. X-358 p.
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 219-240
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: [This chapter] aims to examine Dio’s views on civil war as they are expressed in two speeches he composed for Cicero; one speech comes just after Caesar’s murder in 44 BCE, and another half a year later against Antonius. (…) Therefore, if he chose to add speeches at these historical junctions, it indicates their importance to him and to his literary and historical agenda. Whereas the first speech pleads for concord and peace, the second speech is a fervent harangue against Antonius, with the demand to declare him a public enemy. This use of Cicero’s militant rhetoric enables Dio to achieve two goals – the first is to provide justification for Young Caesar’s later triumph in a civil war by deeming the war against Antonius necessary and even justified. The second is to show and even criticize the conduct of a senator of the Late Republic. Dio’s view on the role of a senator during civil war was quite different than Cicero’s. In fact, it is plausible to argue, according to the following analysis, that Dio uses the image of Cicero as an example of how a senator should not act. [Author]
Sigla autore: Peer 2020
