Auteur: Bishop, Caroline
Titre: The Thrill of Defeat , Classicism and the Ancient Reception of Cicero’s and Demosthenes’ Philippics
Revue/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Annèe edition: 2020
Pages: 37-56
Mots-clès: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Cicero and Demosthenes alike were remembered as allegories for the failure of democratic free speech at the hands of autocracy, and each also represented both the pinnacle and the end of a classical period. Bishop argues that the published collection of Cicero’s Philippics plants the seeds for this sort of reception by imitating one of the most salient features of Demosthenes’ speeches: their valorization of failure as a necessary price to pay when a society’s attempt to maintain its classical glory exceeded its ability. By invoking the potential for a similarly noble defeat against Antony, Cicero’s collection of Philippics was meant to secure a Demosthenic reputation for himself should he also fail—a reputation with which his ancient readers obliged him. [Pieper and Velden 2020, ix]
Oeuvres:
Liens: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-005/pdf
Sigle auteur: Bishop 2020
Titre: The Thrill of Defeat , Classicism and the Ancient Reception of Cicero’s and Demosthenes’ Philippics
Revue/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Annèe edition: 2020
Pages: 37-56
Mots-clès: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Cicero and Demosthenes alike were remembered as allegories for the failure of democratic free speech at the hands of autocracy, and each also represented both the pinnacle and the end of a classical period. Bishop argues that the published collection of Cicero’s Philippics plants the seeds for this sort of reception by imitating one of the most salient features of Demosthenes’ speeches: their valorization of failure as a necessary price to pay when a society’s attempt to maintain its classical glory exceeded its ability. By invoking the potential for a similarly noble defeat against Antony, Cicero’s collection of Philippics was meant to secure a Demosthenic reputation for himself should he also fail—a reputation with which his ancient readers obliged him. [Pieper and Velden 2020, ix]
Oeuvres:
Liens: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-005/pdf
Sigle auteur: Bishop 2020
