Author: Stone, Martin
Title: Greek Ethics and Roman Statesmen: De Officiis and the Philippics
Review/Collection: In : Stevenson,Tom & Wilson, Marcus (Eds.), Cicero's Philippics: History, rhetoric and ideology, Polygraphia, coll. "Prudentia", Auckland, 2008, 374 p.
Year edition: 2008
Pages: 214-239
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: Martin Stone shows that Roman reflections of Greek thought on the cardinal virtues of the ideal statesman are not absent from the Philippics. His argument is that Antony's claim to possess the cardinal virtues has dictated Cicero’ strategy of response in the Second and Third Philippics. According to Cicero, the late dictator Caesar did not possess the requisite virtues but he had them more than Antony. The aspiring youth Octavian is set up as a counter to Antony; consequently the virtues claimed by Antony are transferred to the young Caesar. Cicero, then, is ultimately behind the Principate’s obsession with virtues. [Stevenson & Wilson 2008, 9]
Works:
Author initials: Stone 2008
Title: Greek Ethics and Roman Statesmen: De Officiis and the Philippics
Review/Collection: In : Stevenson,Tom & Wilson, Marcus (Eds.), Cicero's Philippics: History, rhetoric and ideology, Polygraphia, coll. "Prudentia", Auckland, 2008, 374 p.
Year edition: 2008
Pages: 214-239
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: Martin Stone shows that Roman reflections of Greek thought on the cardinal virtues of the ideal statesman are not absent from the Philippics. His argument is that Antony's claim to possess the cardinal virtues has dictated Cicero’ strategy of response in the Second and Third Philippics. According to Cicero, the late dictator Caesar did not possess the requisite virtues but he had them more than Antony. The aspiring youth Octavian is set up as a counter to Antony; consequently the virtues claimed by Antony are transferred to the young Caesar. Cicero, then, is ultimately behind the Principate’s obsession with virtues. [Stevenson & Wilson 2008, 9]
Works:
Author initials: Stone 2008
