Auteur: Blom, Henriette van der
Titre: Cicero’s De inventione: Where is the Res Publica?
Revue/Collection: «Ciceroniana On Line» VIII, 2, 2024
Éditeur: Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron & Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Annèe edition: 2024
Pages: 569-596
Mots-clès: Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Cicero opens the work with the age-old problem of eloquence used for the wrong ends, and he evokes the res publica as part of that context. He mentions examples of such misuse in passing (the Gracchi at inv. 1, 5; 1, 91) but not Saturninus or Livius Drusus the Younger who arguably exemplified controversial oratorical interventions in the res publica shortly before he composed his work. And he mentions the problem of maiestas but mainly as a definitional problem, less as the major legal and political problem of the 90s and 80s BC illustrated in other extant sources. This paper discusses Cicero’s explicit mentions of the res publica, their meanings, and their implications for a reading of Cicero’s work as not only a handbook on the first task of the orator but also as a work composed by an author later formulating complex ideas of the res publica: indeed, where is the res publica in the De inventione? [Author]
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Liens: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/11647/9595
Sigle auteur: Blom 2024
Titre: Cicero’s De inventione: Where is the Res Publica?
Revue/Collection: «Ciceroniana On Line» VIII, 2, 2024
Éditeur: Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron & Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Annèe edition: 2024
Pages: 569-596
Mots-clès: Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Cicero opens the work with the age-old problem of eloquence used for the wrong ends, and he evokes the res publica as part of that context. He mentions examples of such misuse in passing (the Gracchi at inv. 1, 5; 1, 91) but not Saturninus or Livius Drusus the Younger who arguably exemplified controversial oratorical interventions in the res publica shortly before he composed his work. And he mentions the problem of maiestas but mainly as a definitional problem, less as the major legal and political problem of the 90s and 80s BC illustrated in other extant sources. This paper discusses Cicero’s explicit mentions of the res publica, their meanings, and their implications for a reading of Cicero’s work as not only a handbook on the first task of the orator but also as a work composed by an author later formulating complex ideas of the res publica: indeed, where is the res publica in the De inventione? [Author]
Oeuvres:
Liens: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/11647/9595
Sigle auteur: Blom 2024
