Auteur: Pieper, Christoph
Titre: : « ‘Cicero Cannot Be Separated from the State’: In Search of Cicero’s Political and Moral Exemplarity in Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia »
Revue/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Pausch, Dennis, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2023, 287 p. [Pieper & Pausch 2023]
Lieu èdition: Leiden Boston
Éditeur: Brill
Annèe edition: 2023
Pages: 190-214
Mots-clès: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Histoire - Storia - History, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: Christoph Pieper interprets the two earliest corpora of Ciceronian commentaries, Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia. It suggests that they were written for idealized (implied) readers who were interested not only in Cicero’s speeches as oratorical models, but also in the history of the late Republic. When reading the commentaries, not in a fragmented way as merely secondary literature but as one coherent corpus, the originally chronological arrangement of Cicero’s speeches in these commentaries turns out to be a kind of history book, offering late Republican history to the reader through the lens of Cicero’s speeches. The second part of the chapter argues that this historical attitude results in an interest in Cicero that goes far beyond his rhetorical excellence. The commentaries participate in the Imperial debate about Cicero’s political and moral legacy by turning him into an exemplary personality and by exculpating all his possible errors. [Pieper & Pausch 2023, 18]
Liens: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004516441/BP000009.pdf
Sigle auteur: Pieper 2023
Titre: : « ‘Cicero Cannot Be Separated from the State’: In Search of Cicero’s Political and Moral Exemplarity in Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia »
Revue/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Pausch, Dennis, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2023, 287 p. [Pieper & Pausch 2023]
Lieu èdition: Leiden Boston
Éditeur: Brill
Annèe edition: 2023
Pages: 190-214
Mots-clès: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Histoire - Storia - History, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: Christoph Pieper interprets the two earliest corpora of Ciceronian commentaries, Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia. It suggests that they were written for idealized (implied) readers who were interested not only in Cicero’s speeches as oratorical models, but also in the history of the late Republic. When reading the commentaries, not in a fragmented way as merely secondary literature but as one coherent corpus, the originally chronological arrangement of Cicero’s speeches in these commentaries turns out to be a kind of history book, offering late Republican history to the reader through the lens of Cicero’s speeches. The second part of the chapter argues that this historical attitude results in an interest in Cicero that goes far beyond his rhetorical excellence. The commentaries participate in the Imperial debate about Cicero’s political and moral legacy by turning him into an exemplary personality and by exculpating all his possible errors. [Pieper & Pausch 2023, 18]
Liens: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004516441/BP000009.pdf
Sigle auteur: Pieper 2023
