Author: Lentano, Mario
Title: Parlare di Cicerone sotto il governo del suo assassino. Una lettura della controversia VII, 2 di Seneca e la politica Augustea della memoria
Review/Collection: in: Poignault, R. & Schneider, C. (Éd.), Fabrique de la déclamation antique (Controverses et suasoires), (Collection de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série Littéraire et Philosophique, 21)
Place edition: Lyon
Editor: Presses de la MOM
Year edition: 2016
Pages: 375-391
Keywords: Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Lentano, Mario] [Abstract] Seneca the Elder’s controversia VII, 2 – Popillius accused of misconduct because he killed Cicero in the days of the triumviral proscriptions – is examined from two different viewpoints: as an example of what happens when a historical event moves from reality into the realm of school exercises, and as a political theme debated by declaimers under the reign of Augustus, just a few years after the assassination of Cicero. The princeps succeeded in manipulating and re-writing recent history, in order to cast the blame of Cicero’s death on Mark Antony, and declamation faithfully reflects Augustan propaganda by inventing the character of Popillius as a killer sent by Antony ; but maybe a new interpretation of this character is possible.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/29338476/Parlare_di_Cicerone_sotto_il_governo_del_suo_assassino_La_controversia_VII_2_di_Seneca_e_la_politica_augustea_della_memoria_in?email_work_card=title
Author initials: Lentano 2016
Title: Parlare di Cicerone sotto il governo del suo assassino. Una lettura della controversia VII, 2 di Seneca e la politica Augustea della memoria
Review/Collection: in: Poignault, R. & Schneider, C. (Éd.), Fabrique de la déclamation antique (Controverses et suasoires), (Collection de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série Littéraire et Philosophique, 21)
Place edition: Lyon
Editor: Presses de la MOM
Year edition: 2016
Pages: 375-391
Keywords: Histoire - Storia - History, Politique - Politica - Politics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: [Lentano, Mario] [Abstract] Seneca the Elder’s controversia VII, 2 – Popillius accused of misconduct because he killed Cicero in the days of the triumviral proscriptions – is examined from two different viewpoints: as an example of what happens when a historical event moves from reality into the realm of school exercises, and as a political theme debated by declaimers under the reign of Augustus, just a few years after the assassination of Cicero. The princeps succeeded in manipulating and re-writing recent history, in order to cast the blame of Cicero’s death on Mark Antony, and declamation faithfully reflects Augustan propaganda by inventing the character of Popillius as a killer sent by Antony ; but maybe a new interpretation of this character is possible.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/29338476/Parlare_di_Cicerone_sotto_il_governo_del_suo_assassino_La_controversia_VII_2_di_Seneca_e_la_politica_augustea_della_memoria_in?email_work_card=title
Author initials: Lentano 2016
