Author: Lentano, Mario
Title: La città dei figli. Pensieri di un declamatore ai funerali di Cicerone
Review/Collection: in: Pepe, C. & Moretti, G. (a cura di), Le parole dopo la morte. Forme e funzioni della retorica funeraria nella tradizione greca e romana (Labirinti 158)
Place edition: Trento
Editor: Università degli Studi di Trento
Year edition: 2015
Pages: 223-244
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Histoire - Storia - History
Description: [Lentano, Mario] [Abstract] In the second part of his sixth Suasoria, Seneca the Elder quotes many passages from Roman historians of the early Julio-Claudian age about the assassination of Cicero and the diplay of his dismembered corpse on the Rostra. The present paper deals with one pf these fragments: in paragraphs 20 and 21 of the Suasoria, Seneca quotes Bruttedius Niger, orator and historian under Tiberius. Bruttedius’ account is clearly influenced by school declamation (e.g. he is the first among historians who gives the name of Popillius as Cicero’s killer, as Seneca does in Controversia 7, 2). It is also noteworthy, moreover, that Bruttedius describes Roman citizens as performing a sort of funeral ritual: one in which the traditional laudatio funebris is not heard, but delivered by them.
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Link: https://www.academia.edu/6965031/La_citt%C3%A0_dei_figli_Pensieri_di_un_declamatore_ai_funerali_di_Cicerone?email_work_card=view-paper
Author initials: Lentano 2015
Title: La città dei figli. Pensieri di un declamatore ai funerali di Cicerone
Review/Collection: in: Pepe, C. & Moretti, G. (a cura di), Le parole dopo la morte. Forme e funzioni della retorica funeraria nella tradizione greca e romana (Labirinti 158)
Place edition: Trento
Editor: Università degli Studi di Trento
Year edition: 2015
Pages: 223-244
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Histoire - Storia - History
Description: [Lentano, Mario] [Abstract] In the second part of his sixth Suasoria, Seneca the Elder quotes many passages from Roman historians of the early Julio-Claudian age about the assassination of Cicero and the diplay of his dismembered corpse on the Rostra. The present paper deals with one pf these fragments: in paragraphs 20 and 21 of the Suasoria, Seneca quotes Bruttedius Niger, orator and historian under Tiberius. Bruttedius’ account is clearly influenced by school declamation (e.g. he is the first among historians who gives the name of Popillius as Cicero’s killer, as Seneca does in Controversia 7, 2). It is also noteworthy, moreover, that Bruttedius describes Roman citizens as performing a sort of funeral ritual: one in which the traditional laudatio funebris is not heard, but delivered by them.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/6965031/La_citt%C3%A0_dei_figli_Pensieri_di_un_declamatore_ai_funerali_di_Cicerone?email_work_card=view-paper
Author initials: Lentano 2015
