Documents of a Crumbling Marriage: The Case of Cicero and Terentia

Author: Claassen, Jo-Marie
Title: Documents of a Crumbling Marriage: The Case of Cicero and Terentia
Review/Collection: "Phoenix", 50, 3-4
Place edition: Toronto
Editor: Ontario Classical Association
Year edition: 1996
Pages: 208-232
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography
Description: [L'Année philologique]   [Comment] On 1) the usually cited ancient evidence, starting with Plutarch (Cic. 41, 2-6,) for the disintegration of the marriage of Cicero and Terentia ; 2) establishing a psychological portrait of the family with the evidence from Cicero's letters (especially Fam. 14, and various letters to Atticus) ; and 3) an application of modern standard descriptors of marital strain.
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Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1192650
Author initials: Claassen 1996