Cicero's Correspondence
Title | Cicero's Correspondence PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 304 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
An Easy Selection from Cicero's Correspondence
Title | An Easy Selection from Cicero's Correspondence PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome
Title | The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Wilcox |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0299288331 |
Amanda Wilcox offers an innovative approach to two major collections of Roman letters—Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles—informed by modern cross-cultural theories of gift-giving. By viewing letters and the practice of correspondence as a species of gift exchange, Wilcox provides a nuanced analysis of neglected and misunderstood aspects of Roman epistolary rhetoric and the social dynamics of friendship in Cicero’s correspondence. Turning to Seneca, she shows that he both inherited and reacted against Cicero’s euphemistic rhetoric and social practices, and she analyzes how Seneca transformed the rhetoric of his own letters from an instrument of social negotiation into an idiom for ethical philosophy and self-reflection. Though Cicero and Seneca are often viewed as a study in contrasts, Wilcox extensively compares their letters, underscoring Cicero’s significant influence on Seneca as a prose stylist, philosopher, and public figure.
Cicero's letters
Title | Cicero's letters PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Authors, Latin |
ISBN |
An Easy Selection from Cicero's Correspondence;
Title | An Easy Selection from Cicero's Correspondence; PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | Palala Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-05-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781359677082 |
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Cicero in Letters
Title | Cicero in Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Peter White |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-07-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199750572 |
Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero's contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule. The first part of this study analyzes effects of the milieu in which the letters were written. The lack of an organized postal system limited the correspondence that Cicero and his contemporaries could conduct and influenced what they were willing to write about. Their chief motive for exchanging letters was to protect political relationships until they could resume their customary, face-to-face association in Rome. Romans did not normally sign letters, much less write them in their own hand. Their correspondence was handled by agents who drafted, expedited, and interpreted it. Yet every letter advertised the level of intimacy that bound the writer and the addressee. Finally, the published letters were not drawn at random from the archives that Cicero left. An editor selected and arranged them in order to impress on readers a particular view of Cicero as a public personality. The second half of the book explores the significance of leading themes in the letters. It shows how, in a time of deepening crisis, Cicero and his correspondents drew on their knowledge of literature, the habit of consultation, and the rhetoric of government in an effort to improve cooperation and to maintain the political culture which they shared. The result is a revealing look at Cicero's epistolary practices and also the world of elite social intercourse in the late Republic.
EASY SELECTION FROM CICEROS CO
Title | EASY SELECTION FROM CICEROS CO PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2016-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781361104767 |
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