Author: Hutchinson, G.O.
Title: Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
Review/Collection: In : Tobias Reinhardt (ed.) et al., Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, Proceedings of the British Academy (London, 2005; online edn, British Academy Scholarship Online, 31 Jan. 2012)
Year edition: 2005
Pages: 178–193
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: This chapter presents a line from Pope’s An Essay on Man. It specifically reuses the spider that ‘Feels at each thread, and lives along the line’ as an image to introduce a way of looking at the writing in Cicero’s oratory. The chapter also focuses on one speech, the Pro S. Roscio, which receives an unusual amount of comment in Cicero’s work from the forties. The discussion of passages may show, perhaps more than has been done before, how much is involved in reading Cicero. The greatest hope is that it may encourage people to read Cicero with no less intensity and sophistication than Latin poetry [Author)
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Author initials: Hutchinson 2005
Title: Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
Review/Collection: In : Tobias Reinhardt (ed.) et al., Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, Proceedings of the British Academy (London, 2005; online edn, British Academy Scholarship Online, 31 Jan. 2012)
Year edition: 2005
Pages: 178–193
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: This chapter presents a line from Pope’s An Essay on Man. It specifically reuses the spider that ‘Feels at each thread, and lives along the line’ as an image to introduce a way of looking at the writing in Cicero’s oratory. The chapter also focuses on one speech, the Pro S. Roscio, which receives an unusual amount of comment in Cicero’s work from the forties. The discussion of passages may show, perhaps more than has been done before, how much is involved in reading Cicero. The greatest hope is that it may encourage people to read Cicero with no less intensity and sophistication than Latin poetry [Author)
Works:
Author initials: Hutchinson 2005
