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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Caroline Bishop (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, Texas Tech University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.712kg ISBN: 9780198829423ISBN 10: 0198829426 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 10 January 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsFrontmatter Texts and Abbreviations 0: Introduction 0.1: Cicero's intellectual politics: textual production as a new man 0.2: Greek intellectual culture and Roman classicism 0.3: iGraecus et scholasticus: Roman ambivalence towards Greek culture 0.4: Intellectual and scholastic culture in Republican Rome 0.5: Conclusion and chapter summary 1: Aratus 1.1: Cicero and the virtues of translation 1.2: Aratus' Phaenomena 1.3: The Phaenomena in Hellenistic Greece 1.4: Cicero's Aratea 1.5: Conclusion 2: Plato 2.1: The features of Cicero's Plato 2.2: Plato in Philo's Academy 2.3: Plato in Antiochus' Academy 2.4: Scepticism and syncretism in Cicero's Timaeus 2.5: Conclusion 3: Aristotle 3.1: The features of Cicero's Aristotle 3.2: Aristotle, Philo, and in utramque partem debate 3.3: Aristotle in Cicero's rhetorical works 3.4: Conclusion 4: Demosthenes 4.1: Demosthenes' Hellenistic reputation 4.2: Demosthenes in Cicero's early career 4.3: Demosthenes, tyranny, and Atticism in Cicero's late career 4.3.1: Brutus 4.3.2: De Optimo Genere Oratorum and Orator 4.3.3: The Philippics 5: Letters 5.1: Cicero and the world of Greek letters 5.1.1: Greek (and Roman) epistolary theory 5.1.2: Greek letter collections 5.2: Cicero's (planned) letter collection 5.3: Conclusion 6: Cicero 6.1: Modelling reception in the philosophical dialogues 6.2: Hellenistic philosophy and Roman poetry in the philosophical dialogues 6.3: The Aratea in De Natura Deorum 6.4: Cicero's poetry in De Divinatione 6.5: Conclusion 7: Conclusion Endmatter Bibliography IndexReviews"All readers of Cicero will find value in this book, as will anyone interested in the impact of Greek intellectual culture on Roman literature. There is a wealth of detail, and Bishop offers a host of fresh insights into the care and effort Cicero took to make his works into Roman ""classics."" * Sean McConnell, CJ-Online * Learned, insightful, and wide-ranging, Bishop has produced a study of Ciceronian literary classicism that is sure to enjoy a long afterlife on scholars' bookshelves and bibliographies. Even Cicero would have asked for little else. * Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Bryn Mawr Classics Review * ...another book of deep erudition, wide range, and intelligent exposition. * Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge *" ...another book of deep erudition, wide range, and intelligent exposition. * Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge * Author InformationCaroline Bishop is Assistant Professor of Classics at Texas Tech University. She specializes in Greek and Roman intellectual history, Cicero and Latin prose, and the mechanics of reception in the ancient world, with a particular focus on classicism, canon formation, and cultural exchange from Greece to Rome. Her current research centres on questions of reading and interpretation in antiquity, and the ways in which ancient intellectual culture intersected with ancient literary production. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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