Author: Fotheringham, Lynn
Title: Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo
Review/Collection: In: RHIANNON ASH, JUDITH MOSSMAN and FRANCES B. TITCHENER, eds., Fame and Infamy: Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography 1. Oxford University Press.
Year edition: 2015
Pages: 193-208
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: Plutarch Cicero 35 and Dio Roman History 40.48–55 are two of the sources that make Milo’s trial de vi after the death of Clodius one of the best-attested of Ciceronian trials. Ciceronian scholars (including myself), interested in these passages for the evidence they provide for that trial and its context, have tended to examine them in isolation from the works of which they form a part. This is unfortunate, since contextualizing the account of the trial within those works sheds light on the writers’ reasons for including this event in their narratives, on their choices about how to present it, and therefore on the value and nature of the evidence they provide. My focus remains on Cicero and his ancient reception, but the current volume provides me with a welcome opportunity to try to do more justice to Plutarch and Dio themselves.[Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/79722109/Plutarch_and_Dio_on_Cicero_at_the_Trial_of_Milo
Author initials: Fotheringham 2015
Title: Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo
Review/Collection: In: RHIANNON ASH, JUDITH MOSSMAN and FRANCES B. TITCHENER, eds., Fame and Infamy: Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography 1. Oxford University Press.
Year edition: 2015
Pages: 193-208
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics
Description: Plutarch Cicero 35 and Dio Roman History 40.48–55 are two of the sources that make Milo’s trial de vi after the death of Clodius one of the best-attested of Ciceronian trials. Ciceronian scholars (including myself), interested in these passages for the evidence they provide for that trial and its context, have tended to examine them in isolation from the works of which they form a part. This is unfortunate, since contextualizing the account of the trial within those works sheds light on the writers’ reasons for including this event in their narratives, on their choices about how to present it, and therefore on the value and nature of the evidence they provide. My focus remains on Cicero and his ancient reception, but the current volume provides me with a welcome opportunity to try to do more justice to Plutarch and Dio themselves.[Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/79722109/Plutarch_and_Dio_on_Cicero_at_the_Trial_of_Milo
Author initials: Fotheringham 2015
