Auteur: East, Katherine A.
Titre: Editing Ciceronian Religion in the Enlightenment
Revue/Collection: in : Claudia Beltrão da Rosa, Federico Santangelo, Cicero and Roman religion: eight studies. Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Band 72. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, 154 p.
Lieu èdition: Stuttgart
Éditeur: Franz Steiner Verlag
Annèe edition: 2020
Pages: 135-146
Mots-clès: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Katherine East suggests that an underappreciated element in the reception of Cicero’s philosophical works is the actual editing of his texts – a tantalizing proposition one would like to see explored in greater depth. Given space constraints, however, she focuses on the role of the final paragraph of De Natura Deorum in theological debates of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particular the debate between the radical Freethinker Anthony Collins and the classical scholar Richard Bentley. There is not much here about editing Latin: the passage in question is fairly stable. Yet East’s work reveals how little our reading of that last paragraph has advanced in the intervening centuries. We still debate, albeit perhaps in less stark terms, whether Marcus’s apparent endorsement of Balbus’s Stoic argument – Haec cum essent dicta, ita discessimus, ut Velleio Cottae disputatio verior, mihi Balbi ad veritatis similitudinem videretur esse propensior — reveals Cicero to be a Stoic at heart (so Bentley) or an Academic Sceptic, as Collins would have him. East’s careful accounting of Collins’ personal library suggests how other scholars’ internal references, published translations, and representations of Academic methodology shaped his understanding of Cicero’s philosophical allegiance [Celia Schultz, BMCR 2020.11.04].
Sigle auteur: East 2020
Titre: Editing Ciceronian Religion in the Enlightenment
Revue/Collection: in : Claudia Beltrão da Rosa, Federico Santangelo, Cicero and Roman religion: eight studies. Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Band 72. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, 154 p.
Lieu èdition: Stuttgart
Éditeur: Franz Steiner Verlag
Annèe edition: 2020
Pages: 135-146
Mots-clès: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Katherine East suggests that an underappreciated element in the reception of Cicero’s philosophical works is the actual editing of his texts – a tantalizing proposition one would like to see explored in greater depth. Given space constraints, however, she focuses on the role of the final paragraph of De Natura Deorum in theological debates of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particular the debate between the radical Freethinker Anthony Collins and the classical scholar Richard Bentley. There is not much here about editing Latin: the passage in question is fairly stable. Yet East’s work reveals how little our reading of that last paragraph has advanced in the intervening centuries. We still debate, albeit perhaps in less stark terms, whether Marcus’s apparent endorsement of Balbus’s Stoic argument – Haec cum essent dicta, ita discessimus, ut Velleio Cottae disputatio verior, mihi Balbi ad veritatis similitudinem videretur esse propensior — reveals Cicero to be a Stoic at heart (so Bentley) or an Academic Sceptic, as Collins would have him. East’s careful accounting of Collins’ personal library suggests how other scholars’ internal references, published translations, and representations of Academic methodology shaped his understanding of Cicero’s philosophical allegiance [Celia Schultz, BMCR 2020.11.04].
Sigle auteur: East 2020
