Author: La Bua, Giuseppe
Title: « Teaching Cicero through the Scholia: the ‘Active Reader’ in Late Antique Commentaries on Cicero’s Speeches »
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Pausch, Dennis, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2023, 287 p. [Pieper & Pausch 2023]
Place edition: Leiden-Boston
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2023
Pages: 22-40
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Giuseppe La Bua discusses the didactic function of the ancient commentaries and scholia on Cicero’s speeches, intended as auxiliary texts supporting teachers and students in the interpretation and clarification of rhetorical, linguistic, and textual issues arising during the reading and learning process. The chapter starts with Jerome’s discussion of the art of commentary in his reply to Rufinus’ indictment for plagiarism (Against Rufinus 1.16) and re-examines the modalities by which an oration was being read and commented upon in the classrooms. Subsequently, it sheds further light on the figure of the scholiast as schoolteacher, engaged in assisting his students on their path towards intellectual maturation. In addition to providing a telling test-case for illustrating the impact exercised by the persona of Cicero on the moral and cultural growth of would-be ‘Ciceros’, the scholia illuminate the complexity of the relationship between teacher and student and emphasize the reader’s active role in interpreting the text of the master author. [Pieper & Pausch 2023, 15]
Link: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004516441/BP000002.xml
Author initials: La Bua 2023
Title: « Teaching Cicero through the Scholia: the ‘Active Reader’ in Late Antique Commentaries on Cicero’s Speeches »
Review/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Pausch, Dennis, The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches. Contexts and Perspectives, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2023, 287 p. [Pieper & Pausch 2023]
Place edition: Leiden-Boston
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2023
Pages: 22-40
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: Giuseppe La Bua discusses the didactic function of the ancient commentaries and scholia on Cicero’s speeches, intended as auxiliary texts supporting teachers and students in the interpretation and clarification of rhetorical, linguistic, and textual issues arising during the reading and learning process. The chapter starts with Jerome’s discussion of the art of commentary in his reply to Rufinus’ indictment for plagiarism (Against Rufinus 1.16) and re-examines the modalities by which an oration was being read and commented upon in the classrooms. Subsequently, it sheds further light on the figure of the scholiast as schoolteacher, engaged in assisting his students on their path towards intellectual maturation. In addition to providing a telling test-case for illustrating the impact exercised by the persona of Cicero on the moral and cultural growth of would-be ‘Ciceros’, the scholia illuminate the complexity of the relationship between teacher and student and emphasize the reader’s active role in interpreting the text of the master author. [Pieper & Pausch 2023, 15]
Link: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004516441/BP000002.xml
Author initials: La Bua 2023
