Author: Martins, Paulo
Title: Constructing Cicero
Review/Collection: Nuntius Antiquus, Belo Horizonte, v. IX, n. 2, jul.-dez. 2013
Year edition: 2013
Pages: 221-237
Keywords: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: This paper intends to discuss a homology elaborated by Cicero in the De Inuentione, Book II, which concerns the relation between his rhetorical project and a painting by Zeuxis. This discussion seems appropriate, since the points made on the issues concerning this homology tend to sound impressionistic or imprecise, and even problematic, as the term of comparison to Ciceros opus no longer exists. Thus, I intend to interpret Cicero's auctoritas as a preceptor, according to the homologies he proposes concerning the elaboration of his doctrines in his De Inuentione, taking into consideration the type of painting produced by Zeuxis, revising the material culture of that period and observing textual references about it. Since his work was conceived in his youth, the auctor Cicero would lack the authority necessary to confirm his arguments. In this sense, by extension, he borrows Zeuxis' authority in order to compose his persona docta, so that, in this treatise, he becomes a painter and his painting is his project of Ars bene dicend [Author]
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Link: https://www.academia.edu/6643170/Constructing_Cicero
Author initials: Martins 2013
Title: Constructing Cicero
Review/Collection: Nuntius Antiquus, Belo Horizonte, v. IX, n. 2, jul.-dez. 2013
Year edition: 2013
Pages: 221-237
Keywords: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: This paper intends to discuss a homology elaborated by Cicero in the De Inuentione, Book II, which concerns the relation between his rhetorical project and a painting by Zeuxis. This discussion seems appropriate, since the points made on the issues concerning this homology tend to sound impressionistic or imprecise, and even problematic, as the term of comparison to Ciceros opus no longer exists. Thus, I intend to interpret Cicero's auctoritas as a preceptor, according to the homologies he proposes concerning the elaboration of his doctrines in his De Inuentione, taking into consideration the type of painting produced by Zeuxis, revising the material culture of that period and observing textual references about it. Since his work was conceived in his youth, the auctor Cicero would lack the authority necessary to confirm his arguments. In this sense, by extension, he borrows Zeuxis' authority in order to compose his persona docta, so that, in this treatise, he becomes a painter and his painting is his project of Ars bene dicend [Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/6643170/Constructing_Cicero
Author initials: Martins 2013
