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The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire: The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend

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Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a "new man" and leading a complex and contradictory life. After his murder in 43 BC, he was indeed remembered for his life and his works - but not for all of them. This book explores Cicero's reception in the early Roman Empire, showing what was remembered and why. It argues that  Read more...

Author(s): Keeline, Thomas J.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 375
Tags: Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Appreciation;Cicero, Marcus Tullius;Rhetoric, Ancient;Art appreciation

Introduction
An Orientation
Scope and Structure
1 Pro Milone: Reading Cicero in the Schoolroom
The Miloniana Commentary Tradition: Sources
Pro Milone: Background to the Speech and Outline
Quintilian on How to Read a Speech
Themes and Methods of Instruction
The Introductory praelectio
Exordium
Dispelling praeiudicia
Narratio
Argumentatio
Peroratio
Conclusion
2 Eloquence (Dis)embodied: The Textualization of Cicero
A Modern Syncrisis
The Declamatory Classroom
Cicero as Model of EloquenceCicero and the Decline of Eloquence
The Ancient Syncrisis: Cicero and Demosthenes
Conclusion
3 Remaking Cicero in the Schoolroom: Cicero's Death
Popillius the Parricide
Propaganda and Declamation
The Death of Cicero: Declaimers Writing History
The Death of Cicero: Historians Writing Declamation
The Death of Cicero: Livy et al.
Greek Historians on Cicero's Death
4 Pro Cicerone/In Ciceronem: How to Criticize Cicero
Pseudepigraphic Sources
Consul and nouus homo
Exile
The "Philippics" of Appian and Dio
Coda: The Intertextual Declamatory Aesthetic
5 Seneca the Younger and CiceroDeclamatory Ciceronian Presences
Philosophical Ciceronian Absences
Senecan Form and Function
Senecan Educational Theory
Conclusion
6 Tacitus: Dialogus de Cicerone?
Quintilian
Dialogus de oratoribus: Authorship, Date, and Lacuna
Dialogus de oratoribus: Structure and Characters
Cicero in the Dialogus: Formal Elements
Cicero as Leitmotif
Conclusion
7 Est . . . mihi cum Cicerone aemulatio: Pliny's Cicero
Genre and Plinian Artistry
Cicero in the Epistulae
Echoes of Ciceronian Letters in the Epistulae
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Early Empire and Beyond
Works CitedGeneral Index
Index Locorum