The reception of Cicero’s speeches in the early empire

Autore: Steel, Catherine E. W.
Titolo: The reception of Cicero’s speeches in the early empire
Rivista/Miscellanea: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Luogo edizione: Berlin
Editore: De Gruyter
Anno edizione: 2022
Pagine: 233-246
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Descrizione: Catherine E. W. Steel reads the reception of Cicero’s speeches in Seneca the Elder’s collection, Asconius Pedianus’ historical commentary and Quintilian’s pedagogical handbook as instrumental in determining the diversity of Ciceronian images which cultured readers were familiar with. As demonstrated by the variety of approaches by which students and scholars looked at the Pro Milone, in the early empire there were different ways to be a reader of Cicero’s speeches. Textual Cicero was not only used for didactic purposes. It was open to a plurality of readings reflecting the complexity of Cicero’s figure. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xviii]
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Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-014/pdf
Sigla autore: Steel 2022