| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's companions in classical reception ; volume 2 |
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Brill's companions in classical reception ; volume 2
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| Contents |
Introduction / William H.F. Altman -- Part 1. Imitation or criticism? -- Petrarch and Cicero : adulation and critical distance / Martin McLaughlin -- Cicero's portion of Montaigne's acclaim / Kathy Eden -- Lactantius as Christian Cicero, Cicero as shadow-like instructor / Gabor Kendeffy -- Part 2. The politics of reception -- Conyers Middleton's Cicero : Enlightenment, scholarship and polemic / Robert G. Ingram -- Cicero and the American founders / Carl Richard -- Cicero's quarrels : reception and modernity from Horace to Tacitus / Alex Dressler -- Part 3. French receptions -- Cicero reads Derrida reading Cicero : a politics and a friendship to come / Paul Allen Miller -- Ancient texts, contemporary stakes : J. Carcopino as reader of Cicero's letters / Carlos Levy -- Part 4. German receptions -- Cicero and the Fourth Triumvirate : Gruen, Syme and Strasburger / William H.F. Altman -- Damaged go(o)ds : Cicero's theological triad in the wake of German historicism / Elisabeth Begemann -- Part 5. Cicero divided -- Roman Plato or Roman Demosthenes? : the bifurcation of Cicero in ancient scholarship / Caroline Bishop -- What the Middle Ages missed of Cicero, and why / John O. Ward -- Part 6. Cicero restored -- Cicero, Voltaire, and the philosophes in the French Enlightenment / Matt Sharpe -- Following their own genius : debates on Ciceronianism in 16th-century Italy / JoAnn DellaNeva -- Index locorum |
| Summary |
"Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the study of Cicero's writings with greater interest and respect. Contributors are: William H.F. Altman, Elisabeth Begemann, Caroline Bishop, JoAnn DellaNeva, Alex Dressler, Kathy Eden, Robert G. Ingram, Gábor Kendeffy, Carlos Lévy, Martin McLaughlin, Paul Allen Miller, Carl J. Richard, Matthew Joel Sharpe and John Oastler Ward"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Appreciation
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| SUBJECT |
Cicero, Marcus Tullius fast |
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Classical literature -- History and criticism
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Reader-response criticism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Art appreciation
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Classical literature
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Reader-response criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004290549 |
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9004290540 |
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9004235264 |
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9789004235267 |
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