Cicero: a man of letters in politics

Author: Yavetz, Zvi
Title: Cicero: a man of letters in politics
Review/Collection: in: Clark, G. & Rajak, T. (Ed.), Philosophy and power in the Graeco-Roman world: essays in honour of Miriam Griffin
Place edition: Oxford
Editor: Oxford University Press
Year edition: 2002
Pages: 173-180
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Review:

Ramelli, "Gerin", 2003, 21, (2), 168-173 – Erler, "Classical Review", 2004, NS, 54, (1), 73-76 – Watt, "International Philosophical Quarterly", 2004, 44, (1), 173, 124-126 – Steel, "Journal of Roman Studies", 2004, 94, 192-193 – Morford, "New England classical journal", 2004, 31, (3), 341-343 – Ramelli, "Myrtia", 2005, 20, 328-334

Description: Le manque d’originalité tant reproché aux oeuvres de Cicéron ne doit pas masquer son art et ses jaillissements. [PhR] - Abstract: This chapter argues that Cicero, so immediately recognizable as a human being, has carried the burden of unreasonable expectations. It evokes, with firmness and sympathy, the pressures on a power-holder who must make political judgements without time for philosophical reflection. Cicero is not a philosopher or even an intellectual in politics: he is an intellectual politician, a man of letters -3 index
Link: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198299905.001.0001/acprof-9780198299905-chapter-10
Author initials: Yavetz 2002