Autore: Ottobrini, Tiziano F.
Titolo: Cicero and Photius, An Analysis of the Survival and Influence of Cicero on Photius’ Bibliotheca, at the Crossroads between History and Drama
Rivista/Miscellanea: Deligiannis, Ioannis, Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero, Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, De Guyter, 2024, 274 p.
Luogo edizione: Berlin, Boston
Editore: De Gruyter
Anno edizione: 2024
Pagine: 123-138
Parole chiave: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Descrizione: Cicero was one of the authors read and reviewed by Photius in his Bibliotheca, but to date both the judgment that the Patriarch expressed on him and the reasons why he came to develop this evaluation are completely neglected from a critical point of view. The author points out that Photius dedicates a whole specific section to Cicero (Bibl. 245.395a), quoting that he was killed while reading Euripides’ Medea and arguing that this was made with precise ideological intent: as Medea came from the East and killed her children, so Cicero was killed at the request of Mark Antony (linked to the East through Cleopatra), who as a Roman killed another Roman (hence Rome kills her own son). He also focuses on the Latin authors known by Photius in general and the knowledge that Photius specifically demonstrates about Cicero. It emerges that Photius perceived Cicero as an orator above all, almost entirely leaving out his philosophical production. In parallel, he finally makes some observations on the diffusion of Cicero in Greece during the ninth century, so as to bring out Photius’ specific position within this framework. The paper offers a framework to shed light on Cicero’s legacy among the highest Constantinopolitan intellectual of all, with special regard to the Christian appropriation that was made of the greatest pagan orator [Deligiannis 2024, 99].
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111292779-009/pdf
Sigla autore: Ottobrini 2024
Titolo: Cicero and Photius, An Analysis of the Survival and Influence of Cicero on Photius’ Bibliotheca, at the Crossroads between History and Drama
Rivista/Miscellanea: Deligiannis, Ioannis, Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero, Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, De Guyter, 2024, 274 p.
Luogo edizione: Berlin, Boston
Editore: De Gruyter
Anno edizione: 2024
Pagine: 123-138
Parole chiave: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Descrizione: Cicero was one of the authors read and reviewed by Photius in his Bibliotheca, but to date both the judgment that the Patriarch expressed on him and the reasons why he came to develop this evaluation are completely neglected from a critical point of view. The author points out that Photius dedicates a whole specific section to Cicero (Bibl. 245.395a), quoting that he was killed while reading Euripides’ Medea and arguing that this was made with precise ideological intent: as Medea came from the East and killed her children, so Cicero was killed at the request of Mark Antony (linked to the East through Cleopatra), who as a Roman killed another Roman (hence Rome kills her own son). He also focuses on the Latin authors known by Photius in general and the knowledge that Photius specifically demonstrates about Cicero. It emerges that Photius perceived Cicero as an orator above all, almost entirely leaving out his philosophical production. In parallel, he finally makes some observations on the diffusion of Cicero in Greece during the ninth century, so as to bring out Photius’ specific position within this framework. The paper offers a framework to shed light on Cicero’s legacy among the highest Constantinopolitan intellectual of all, with special regard to the Christian appropriation that was made of the greatest pagan orator [Deligiannis 2024, 99].
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111292779-009/pdf
Sigla autore: Ottobrini 2024
