Author: Rousselot, Philippe
Title: Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920–1945
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 391-428
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Philippe Rousselot calls our attention to Europe and dictatorship and totalitarianism of the first decades of the 20th century, a period that witnessed a significant lack of interest in the personage of Cicero. In three different ways, but with salient common features, the regimes of Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler forgot Cicero. While celebrating other figures of Antiquity, an Antiquity disguised by totalitarian ideology – Spartacus, Caesar, Augustus – they showed radical indifference to Cicero, reputed as a man uncapable of understanding the reasons behind historical and political changes. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xix]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-021/pdf
Author initials: Rousselot 2022
Title: Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920–1945
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 391-428
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Philippe Rousselot calls our attention to Europe and dictatorship and totalitarianism of the first decades of the 20th century, a period that witnessed a significant lack of interest in the personage of Cicero. In three different ways, but with salient common features, the regimes of Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler forgot Cicero. While celebrating other figures of Antiquity, an Antiquity disguised by totalitarian ideology – Spartacus, Caesar, Augustus – they showed radical indifference to Cicero, reputed as a man uncapable of understanding the reasons behind historical and political changes. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xix]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-021/pdf
Author initials: Rousselot 2022
