Author: Carcopino, Jérôme
Title: Les secrets de la correspondance de Cicéron
Place edition: Paris
Editor: L’artisan du livre
Year edition: 1947
Pages: I, 446 / II, 494
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Review:
Works:
Author initials: Carcopino 1947
Title: Les secrets de la correspondance de Cicéron
Place edition: Paris
Editor: L’artisan du livre
Year edition: 1947
Pages: I, 446 / II, 494
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Review:
Allen, W., "Classical Journal", XLIV, 1949, 388
– Boyancé, P., "Revue des Etudes anciennes", LI, 1, 1949, 129-138
– Imbert, J., "Revue belge de philologie", XXVII, 1, 1949, 224-230
– Scalais, R., "Les Etudes classiques", XVII, 1949, 304-310
– Plezia, M., "Eos", XLIII, 2, 1948-1949, 131-137
– Lambrechts, P., "L’antiquité classique", XVIII, 2, 1949, 443-445
– Balsdon, J. P. V. D., "Journal of Roman Studies", XL, 1-2, 1950, 134-135
Description: [Researchgate.net] [Comment] In 1947 J. Carcopino developed an innovative, and soon contested, hypothesis on the published letters of Cicero. The reception of the Secrets in Europe primarily praised the ingenuity and scholarship of the historian, without always accepting, however, the black picture that he painted of Cicero. A historiographic approach to these reactions allows us to understand the ideological conditions in which this black biography was conceived and received, which through Cicero in fact raises the question of the involvement of intellectuals and universities in the 20th century with the authorities. For the rest, the majority of the theories about Cicero held up in this book have today been abandoned, to the benefit of research that is more focused on the rhetorical and literary aspects of this correspondence.Works:
Author initials: Carcopino 1947
