Author: Velden, Bram van der
Title: Ciceronian Reception in the Epistula ad Octauianum
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 121-136
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: In the pseudo-Ciceronian Epistula ad Octauianum, in which ‘Cicero’ vents his anger after Octavian’s betrayal, is a reception document. The author argues that its author alludes to multiples trands of Ciceronian reception at once, strands which are usually kept separate in other ancient reworkings of the Ciceronian legacy: Cicero is portrayed as a politician, rhetorician, philosopher, letter-writer and master of the Latin language all at once. The result is a ‘hyper-Ciceronian’ text which combines themes which we would not expect to be combined even in one single genuine Ciceronian document. Van derVelden argues that the mosaic-like form of intertextuality found in the letter is most characteristic of Late Antiquity. Besides, he submits that the depiction of Cicero as employing over-the-top rhetorical features and as a conduit of the thought of various philosophical schools has distinct late antique features to it. [Pieper and Velden 2020, xi]
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-009/pdf
Author initials: Velden 2020
Title: Ciceronian Reception in the Epistula ad Octauianum
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 121-136
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: In the pseudo-Ciceronian Epistula ad Octauianum, in which ‘Cicero’ vents his anger after Octavian’s betrayal, is a reception document. The author argues that its author alludes to multiples trands of Ciceronian reception at once, strands which are usually kept separate in other ancient reworkings of the Ciceronian legacy: Cicero is portrayed as a politician, rhetorician, philosopher, letter-writer and master of the Latin language all at once. The result is a ‘hyper-Ciceronian’ text which combines themes which we would not expect to be combined even in one single genuine Ciceronian document. Van derVelden argues that the mosaic-like form of intertextuality found in the letter is most characteristic of Late Antiquity. Besides, he submits that the depiction of Cicero as employing over-the-top rhetorical features and as a conduit of the thought of various philosophical schools has distinct late antique features to it. [Pieper and Velden 2020, xi]
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-009/pdf
Author initials: Velden 2020
