【古典学新书】西塞罗：其人及其作品

Cicero

The Man and His Works

AUTHOR: Andrew R. Dyck, University of California, Los Angeles

PUBLICATION PLANNED FOR: November 2024

AVAILABILITY: Not yet published - available from November 2024 

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781107085640

Cicero is one of the most important historical figures of classical antiquity. He rose from a provincial family to become consul at Rome in 63 BC and continued to play an active role in politics before his murder under the triumvirs Octavian, Mark Antony, and Lepidus. He also engaged in Roman intellectual culture, writing key works on both rhetoric and philosophy. We have a very large body of written evidence by and about him – far more than for any other figure of the Roman Republic – including private correspondence not intended for publication. However, previous biographers – in mapping his political career – have mostly overlooked his other activities. Taking a broader perspective enables a much fuller and richer profile of him to emerge. This epochal new portrait of Rome's great orator offers a more complete picture of the man, his personality, and his works in the overall context of his remarkable life.

The first major biography of Cicero for forty years, taking into account the transformation of Ciceronian studies over the past two decades

Emphasizes Cicero's intellectual and philosophical works, situating them within their political contexts to reflect on their contribution to his life and legacy

Compares Cicero with other figures of his time to try to understand what made him unique

Table of Contents

List of maps

List of abbreviations

Introduction

A note on sources

1. An orator's education (106–80)

2. Orator 2.0 (79–71)

3. The 'reluctant' prosecutor (70)

4. A 'new man' rising (6–-64)

5. Piloting the ship of state on an optimate course (January–August 63)

6. Crisis management (September–December 63)

7. The aftermath of the 'annus mirabilis' (62)

8. Seeking shelter in the past as storm clouds gather (61–59)

9. To the abyss and back (58 to early September 57)

10. Resurgence and deflation (September 29, 57 to the end of April 56)

11. Strategies for coping (May 56 to the end of 54)

12. Political realities, theoretical constructs (the end of 54 to mid-51)

13. Away from Rome (mid-51–47)

14. Reclaiming a voice (46)

15. Devastation and recovery (January to mid-45)

16. From theory to practice (mid-45 through March 44)

17. A new struggle looms (April–December 44)

18. The final struggle (43)

19. Conclusion: an intellectual between tradition and power

Appendices

List of works cited

Index of Greek words

Index of Latin words

Index of passages discussed

Subject index

Index of proper names.

Author

Andrew R. Dyck, University of California, Los Angeles

ANDREW R. DYCK is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on a broad range of subjects ranging from Homer to fifteenth-century Italian humanism and is the author of eight previous books on Cicero.

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