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A Written Republic : Cicero's Philosophical Politics / Yelena Baraz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691153322
  • 9781400842162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.1 22
LOC classification:
  • DG260.C5 B29 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces -- Chapter 2. On a More Personal Note -- Chapter 3. The Gift of Philosophy : The Treatises as Translations -- Chapter 4. With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space -- Chapter 5. Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management -- Chapter 6. Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Summary: In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero's decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up this question and makes the case that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. Baraz examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces--a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project. He presents his philosophy as intimately connected to the new political circumstances and his exclusion from politics. His goal--to benefit the state by providing new moral resources for the Roman elite--was traditional, even if his method of translating Greek philosophical knowledge into Latin and combining Greek sources with Roman heritage was unorthodox. A Written Republic provides a new perspective on Cicero's conception of his philosophical project while also adding to the broader picture of late-Roman political, intellectual, and cultural life.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces -- Chapter 2. On a More Personal Note -- Chapter 3. The Gift of Philosophy : The Treatises as Translations -- Chapter 4. With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space -- Chapter 5. Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management -- Chapter 6. Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index

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In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero's decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up this question and makes the case that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. Baraz examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces--a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project. He presents his philosophy as intimately connected to the new political circumstances and his exclusion from politics. His goal--to benefit the state by providing new moral resources for the Roman elite--was traditional, even if his method of translating Greek philosophical knowledge into Latin and combining Greek sources with Roman heritage was unorthodox. A Written Republic provides a new perspective on Cicero's conception of his philosophical project while also adding to the broader picture of late-Roman political, intellectual, and cultural life.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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