Quintus Cicero : a brief handbook on canvassing for office: « Commentariolum petitionis »

Author: Tatum, W. Jeffrey
Title: Quintus Cicero : a brief handbook on canvassing for office: « Commentariolum petitionis »
Place edition: Oxford
Editor: Oxford University Press
Year edition: 2018
Pages: 339
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Politique - Politica - Politics, Traduction - Traduzione - Translation
Review:

Shaw, Edwin, in: Classics Ireland, 26 (2019) 193-196  (Link];  Burckhardt, Leonhard, in: Klio, 102.1 (2020) 358-361 ; Fezzi, Luca, in: Athenaeum, 110.2 (2022) 687-689.

Description: This volume offers both the Latin text and a fresh translation of the Brief Handbook, as well as the first scholarly commentary on the text in the English language. (…) While the comprehensive commentary clarifies the cultural, historical, and literary problems of the text, an incisive introduction supplies the reader with an account of the nature and practice of elections and canvassing for office in the late republic, as well as a detailed rehearsal of particular aspects of Cicero's career that provides the necessary context for understanding his campaign for the consulship in 64. The introduction also examines the literary dimensions of the work, and particularly the question of its authorship: considerations that are crucial to its proper interpretation as a historical source [Publisher]
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Author initials: Tatum 2018