Autore: Oliva, Matilde
Titolo: Eloquence as Handmaiden of Wisdom, Hellenistic Philosoph(ies) in Cicero’s Partitiones Oratoriae
Rivista/Miscellanea: Deligiannis, Ioannis (ed.), Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero, Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, De Guyter, 2024, 274 p.
Luogo edizione: Berlin, Boston
Editore: De Gruyter
Anno edizione: 2024
Pagine: 73-96
Parole chiave: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Descrizione: Matilde Oliva sheds light on the complexity of Cicero’s sources, especially for his philosophical theories and works. She focuses on the allegorical image of th chorus/comitatus virtutum, a personified representation of virtues that first appears in Cicero’s works within Latin literature. In his Partitiones oratoriae, a rhetorical handbook conceived as a dialogue between himself and his son Marcus, Cicero, dealing with each of the three Aristotelian genera of speech, first explains the genus laudativum, which is supposed to teach Marcus not just to speak eloquently, but also to live honestly and virtuously. In a context so strongly characterised from an ethical point of view, Cicero inserts a complex and accurate system of virtues of clear Stoic derivation. Here one finds an intriguing personification of dialectic and oratory, which are portrayed as handmaidens and companions of wisdom. This personification, which reflects an already Stoic concept, brings up a question on the influence of Stoicism on Partitiones oratoriae’s treatment of virtues and on the way Cicero seems to imagine and represent them. Starting from the personification found in Partitiones oratoriae, the author moves through all the Ciceronian occurrences of the chorus/comitatus virtutum. She thus reconstructs the Greek sources of this image and looks for common patterns between the passages, trying to understand where the chorus/comitatus came from exactly and to what extent its presence can be explained in Cicero as a result of the long and deep bond between him and Greece [Deligiannis 2024, 5-6].
Opere:
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111292779-006/pdf
Sigla autore: Oliva 2024
Titolo: Eloquence as Handmaiden of Wisdom, Hellenistic Philosoph(ies) in Cicero’s Partitiones Oratoriae
Rivista/Miscellanea: Deligiannis, Ioannis (ed.), Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero, Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, De Guyter, 2024, 274 p.
Luogo edizione: Berlin, Boston
Editore: De Gruyter
Anno edizione: 2024
Pagine: 73-96
Parole chiave: Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Descrizione: Matilde Oliva sheds light on the complexity of Cicero’s sources, especially for his philosophical theories and works. She focuses on the allegorical image of th chorus/comitatus virtutum, a personified representation of virtues that first appears in Cicero’s works within Latin literature. In his Partitiones oratoriae, a rhetorical handbook conceived as a dialogue between himself and his son Marcus, Cicero, dealing with each of the three Aristotelian genera of speech, first explains the genus laudativum, which is supposed to teach Marcus not just to speak eloquently, but also to live honestly and virtuously. In a context so strongly characterised from an ethical point of view, Cicero inserts a complex and accurate system of virtues of clear Stoic derivation. Here one finds an intriguing personification of dialectic and oratory, which are portrayed as handmaidens and companions of wisdom. This personification, which reflects an already Stoic concept, brings up a question on the influence of Stoicism on Partitiones oratoriae’s treatment of virtues and on the way Cicero seems to imagine and represent them. Starting from the personification found in Partitiones oratoriae, the author moves through all the Ciceronian occurrences of the chorus/comitatus virtutum. She thus reconstructs the Greek sources of this image and looks for common patterns between the passages, trying to understand where the chorus/comitatus came from exactly and to what extent its presence can be explained in Cicero as a result of the long and deep bond between him and Greece [Deligiannis 2024, 5-6].
Opere:
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111292779-006/pdf
Sigla autore: Oliva 2024
