Cicero's Philosophy of History

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921192-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 639 g

Cicero has long been seen to embody the values of the Roman republic. This provocative study of Cicero's use of history reveals that rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditions. Matthew Fox looks to the scepticism of Cicero's philosophical education for an understanding of his perspective on Rome's history, and argues that neglect of the sceptical tradition has transformed the doubting, ambiguous Cicero into the confident proponent of Roman values. Through close reading of a range of his theoretical works, Fox uncovers an ironic attitude towards Roman history, and connects that to the use of irony in mainstream Latin historians. He concludes with a study of a little-known treatise on Cicero from the early eighteenth century which sheds considerable light on the history of Cicero's reception.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Struggle, Compensation, and Argument in Cicero's Philosophy

- 3: Reading and Reception

- 4: Literature, History, and Philosophy: The Example of `De re publica'

- 5: History with Rhetoric, Rhetoric with History: `De oratore' and `De legibus'

- 6: History and Memory

- 7: Brutus

- 8: Divination, History, and Superstition

- 9: Ironic History in the Roman Tradition

- 10: Cicero from Enlightenment to Idealism

- 11: Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Fox is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Birmingham.