Reinventing Cicero
The Afterlife of the Speeches, Letters and Dialogues between 60 and 50 BCE
Reinventing Cicero
The Afterlife of the Speeches, Letters and Dialogues between 60 and 50 BCE
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Exploring the reception of an influential phase in the life of the orator and politician Cicero, this volume focuses on the legacy of his public speeches and political writings that were made between 60-50 BCE. During this period, Cicero experienced multiple challenges in his public career, which he countered by setting up an elaborate self-fashioning programme. His aim was to reinvent himself as republican statesman and a political philosopher. It is this body of Cicero's work that has been discussed, (re)interpreted and evaluated by countless later readers.
The contributions in this volume examine specific moments, such as Pro Caelio and Pro Milone, that have been crucial to his later image as a politician and writer. They focus on the profound interplay between Cicero's strategic political choices and the interpretations of writers and scholars spanning from antiquity to the early modern period. Together, they meticulously construct the canonical image of Cicero – an eminent literary figure, a formidable philosopher and the unrivalled orator of ancient Rome. As a result, the reader gains a deeper understanding of Cicero's enduring influence from antiquity, through the renaissance and right up until the 21st century.
Table of Contents
Introduction Leanne Jansen and Christoph Pieper (Leiden University, Germany)
Part I. Cicero in the 50s: Preparing His Own Reception
Chapter 1. Cicero's Thoughts about his Heritage in the Spring of 50 BCE Lidewij van Gils (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
Chapter 2. Cicero poeta in the 50s Thomas J. Keeline (University of Washington, St. Louis, USA)
Chapter 3. Cicero's genus dialogorum between Fact and Fiction Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK)
Part II. High-Imperial Receptions
Chapter 4. Historia contexta: Atticus' Mediated History of the 50s Andrew James Sillett (Oxford University, UK)
Chapter 5. Cicero's humanitas? Valerius Maximus on Cicero's Defences of Enemies in the 50s Henriette van der Blom (University of Birmingham, UK)
Chapter 6. Cicero's Legal Analogies in Seneca's Political World Maarten Klink (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Chapter 7. Cicero unmasked? Greek Views on the Milo Trial Leanne Jansen (Leiden University, Germany)
Part III. Late Imperial, Late Antique and Early Medieval Receptions
Chapter 8. Platonis aemulus: Ancient Reception of Cicero's Platonic Works Caroline Bishop (Texas Tech University, USA)
Chapter 9. Reading some of Cicero's Speeches in Late Antiquity. In Pisonem, Pro Plancio, Pro Milone Andrea Balbo (University of Turin, Italy)
Chapter 10. Positioning the Paratext: Reflections on an argumentum to the Pro Milone and its Manuscript Contexts Irene O'Daly (Leiden University, Germany)
Part IV. Early Modern and Modern Receptions
Chapter 11. The Discovery of a Classical Author Private and its Impact on Petrarch Karl Enenkel (University of Münster, Germany)
Chapter 12. Clodius' and Cicero's Enmity in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Biographies of Cicero Christoph Pieper (Leiden University, Germany)
Chapter 13. Cicero in the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition of the French Renaissance Eric MacPhail (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Chapter 14. Cicero's Pro Milone in Gerardus Vossius' Rhetorical Works Verena Schulz Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Chapter 15. The 'Reconstruction' of Cicero's De re publica by J.E.D. Bernardi (1798/1807) Reinhold F. Glei (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Chapter 16. 20th and 21st-century Responses to Cicero's Exile in 58/57 BCE Kathryn Stutz (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 29 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350443327 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 5 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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