Author: Corbeill, Anthony
Title: Varro’s Tripartite Theology and Ciceronian Invective in 56 BC
Review/Collection: Aevum Antiquum n.s. 20
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 177-193
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: In spring of 56 BC Cicero delivered a speech before the senate in which he attempted to prove that a recent earthquake prodigy arose as a result of the actions of his political opponent, Publius Clodius. Cicero employs evidence that resembles Varro's three different ways of treating the divine: the mythic, the civic, and the philosophical. This essay examines the intersections between Cicero's tactics and the so-called 'tripartite theology' of Varro. Keywords: Cicero, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Marcus Terentius Varro, De haruspicum responsis, Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, Tripartite Theology, Invective, Tragedy.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/82365079/_Varros_Tripartite_Theology_and_Ciceronian_Invective_in_56_BC_Aevum_Antiquum_n_s_20_2020_177_193
Author initials: Corbeill 2020
Title: Varro’s Tripartite Theology and Ciceronian Invective in 56 BC
Review/Collection: Aevum Antiquum n.s. 20
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 177-193
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Politique - Politica - Politics, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: In spring of 56 BC Cicero delivered a speech before the senate in which he attempted to prove that a recent earthquake prodigy arose as a result of the actions of his political opponent, Publius Clodius. Cicero employs evidence that resembles Varro's three different ways of treating the divine: the mythic, the civic, and the philosophical. This essay examines the intersections between Cicero's tactics and the so-called 'tripartite theology' of Varro. Keywords: Cicero, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Marcus Terentius Varro, De haruspicum responsis, Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, Tripartite Theology, Invective, Tragedy.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/82365079/_Varros_Tripartite_Theology_and_Ciceronian_Invective_in_56_BC_Aevum_Antiquum_n_s_20_2020_177_193
Author initials: Corbeill 2020
