Author: Cizek, Eugen
Title: La poétique cicéronienne de l’histoire
Review/Collection: "Bulletin de l’Association Guillaume Budé",1
Year edition: 1988
Pages: 16-25
Keywords: Histoire - Storia - History, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Cizek reconstructs Cicero’s poetics of history from De oratore, De legibus, Brutus, Orator, and the letter to Lucceius. He argues that Cicero conceived historiography as an autonomous but rhetorically informed art: morally instructive, stylistically varied, and governed by fides rather than absolute truth. Apparent tensions between historical laws and the demand for ornament are resolved through a model of loyal, persuasive, and politically useful narration that shaped later Roman historiography. [PhR]
Works:
Link: https://www.persee.fr/doc/bude_0004-5527_1988_num_1_1_1347
Author initials: Cizek 1988
Title: La poétique cicéronienne de l’histoire
Review/Collection: "Bulletin de l’Association Guillaume Budé",1
Year edition: 1988
Pages: 16-25
Keywords: Histoire - Storia - History, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Cizek reconstructs Cicero’s poetics of history from De oratore, De legibus, Brutus, Orator, and the letter to Lucceius. He argues that Cicero conceived historiography as an autonomous but rhetorically informed art: morally instructive, stylistically varied, and governed by fides rather than absolute truth. Apparent tensions between historical laws and the demand for ornament are resolved through a model of loyal, persuasive, and politically useful narration that shaped later Roman historiography. [PhR]
Works:
Link: https://www.persee.fr/doc/bude_0004-5527_1988_num_1_1_1347
Author initials: Cizek 1988
