Author: Vielberg, Meinolf
Title: Alte Freunde im Gespräch: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der amicitia bei Cicero
Review/Collection: "Ciceroniana online", NS 1, 2
Year edition: 2017
Pages: 261-289
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: What is the relationship between the idealised pair of amici Scipio and Laelius, as portrayed in Cicero’s Laelius, and the real-life pair of amici, Cicero and Atticus, which appear in the Letters? Was Cicero’s intention to use the character of Laelius in the treatise to voice his own views on friendship – a character whose name Cicero regularly borrows in his letters as a pseudonym? Can we see in the guidelines set down by Laelius in the dialogue a reflection of Cicero’s friendship with Atticus and with other political figures, influenced as these were by the social upheaval of the Late Republic? The article seeks to answer these questions through a parallel reading of the Laelius and a selection of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus. In so doing, I argue that key theoretical principles of the dialogue are based on Cicero’s and Atticus’ shared lived experiences, as Atticus himself was able to appreciate (Lael. 5, cuius tota disputatio est de amicitia, quam legens te ipse cognosces). [Abstract dal sito della rivista]
Works:
Link: https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/2501
Author initials: Vielberg 2017
Title: Alte Freunde im Gespräch: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der amicitia bei Cicero
Review/Collection: "Ciceroniana online", NS 1, 2
Year edition: 2017
Pages: 261-289
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: What is the relationship between the idealised pair of amici Scipio and Laelius, as portrayed in Cicero’s Laelius, and the real-life pair of amici, Cicero and Atticus, which appear in the Letters? Was Cicero’s intention to use the character of Laelius in the treatise to voice his own views on friendship – a character whose name Cicero regularly borrows in his letters as a pseudonym? Can we see in the guidelines set down by Laelius in the dialogue a reflection of Cicero’s friendship with Atticus and with other political figures, influenced as these were by the social upheaval of the Late Republic? The article seeks to answer these questions through a parallel reading of the Laelius and a selection of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus. In so doing, I argue that key theoretical principles of the dialogue are based on Cicero’s and Atticus’ shared lived experiences, as Atticus himself was able to appreciate (Lael. 5, cuius tota disputatio est de amicitia, quam legens te ipse cognosces). [Abstract dal sito della rivista]
Works:
Link: https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/2501
Author initials: Vielberg 2017
