Cicero and Roman education : the reception of the speeches and ancient scholarship /

Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of himself as statesman and orator. He memorialized his spiritual and oratorical self by means of a very solid body of texts. Educationalists and school teachers in antiquity relied on Cicero's oratory to supervise the growth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: La Bua, Giuseppe (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cicero presents himself: writing, revision and publication of the speeches; 2. Beyond the author: Cicero's speeches from publication to the medieval manuscripts; 3. Between praise and blame: Ciceronian scholarship from the early Empire to Late Antiquity; 4. Teaching Cicero.