Cicero's Philosophy of History
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Word Count
95,000 words, Guess
Page Count
380 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100199211922
- ISBN-139780199211920
- LibraryThing4053817
- Library of Congress Control Number2007011365
- OCLC Control Number87755205
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780199211920
- Open LibraryOL10145673M
Classifications
- LCCPA6320.F69 2007
- LCCPA6320 .F69 2007
- DDC901
Description
"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."--Book cover.
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