Seneca the Elder on Plagiarizing Cicero's Verrines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9309950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Mcgill (Department of Classical Studies, MS-150, Rice University, P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, USA [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 337-346 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetorica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-8584 • E-ISSN: 1533-8541 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rh.2005.23.4.337 |
| OpenAlex | W1992094433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 2 |
In a comment on the age in which he was writing, Seneca the Elder states inSuas. 2.19 that anyone can plagiarize Cicero's Verrines with impunity. Critics have taken Seneca's assertion as a sign of diminished familiarity with the In Verrem and of Cicero's diminished popularity. This article offers a different interpretation. Seneca assails the inattentiveness of contemporary audiences as they listen to declamations in the rhetorical schools, not their ignorance of theVerrines or aversion to Cicero. Seneca incorporates the In Verrem into that critique due to its emblematic length in order to satirize the audiences' carelessness. The use of theVerrines as a symbol relies for its effect on the easy identification of the text and its size, and consequently points to the fame of that title and its length, as well as of its author Cicero, in the 30s CE
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| Citations per year | 1.38 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |