Recent Scholarship on the Imperial Reception of Cicero

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ID10286179
AuthorsAndrew James Sillett (0000-0001-7062-348X, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford https://dx.doi.org/6396 Oxford United Kingdom, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume75
Issue3
Pages543-555
Publication date2022-02-14
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMnemosyne (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1568525x-bja10154
OpenAlexW4212967606
LanguageEN
References cited17

This article reviews two monographs recently published on the subject of Cicero’s reception in the imperial period: Keeline’s 2018 The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire and La Bua’s 2019 Cicero and Roman Education . As Cicero’s Nachleben is assuming a position of increasing salience in classical studies, this review contextualizes these two volumes within over a century of scholarship on the subject. Keeline’s book demonstrates the critical importance of the schoolroom in shaping almost every aspect of Cicero’s posthumous reception, while La Bua’s methodically elucidates how Cicero’s speeches were taught and read in the classrooms of the empire. The article concludes with an argument for a new approach to studying the reception of Cicero in this period

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Cicero · Empire · Library science · Literature · Period (music · Political science · Scholarship · Subject (documents · Chemistry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Computer Science · History · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy

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