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NON SINE CAUSA SED SINE FINE: CICERO'S COMPULSION TO REPEAT HIS CONSULATE

The Classical journal, 2021
:Freud's theory of the compulsion to repeat in response to a traumatic experience can help explain Cicero's repeated attempts to praise, or have others praise, his consulate. This article argues that Cicero's humiliating exile, and his consequent loss of
John Dugan
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DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED: FICTION FORMING FACT IN CICERO'S DIALOGUES

The Classical journal, 2021
:This paper analyzes Cicero's citations of the not-always-historical past in his theoretical corpus. Examining both the Marian oak in the prologue of De Legibus and Cicero's overall use of historical references, I suggest that Cicero explicitly employs ...
Daniel P. Hanchey
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Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

, 2022
The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the ...
Hannah Čulík-Baird
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How to Make a Roman Demosthenes: Self-Fashioning in Cicero's Brutus and Orator

The Classical journal, 2021
:This article argues that Cicero's use of Demosthenes in his Brutus and Orator should be read in light of Caesar's dictatorship. An examination of Demosthenes' Hellenistic reception reveals that his significance in the Greek world centered on his ...
C. Bishop
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TYPICALLY UNIQUE: SHARED STRATEGIES IN CICERO’S PRO ARCHIA AND PRO BALBO

The Classical journal, 2021
:AbstractCicero claims to use a “new mode of speaking” early in his Pro Archia, a statement which has contributed to a common acceptance of the exceptionality of the speech – particularly its celebration of the liberal arts – in relation to the rest of ...
Daniel P. Hanchey
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CICERO'S BRUTUS AND THE CRITICISM OF ORATORICAL PERFORMANCE

The Classical journal, 2021
:In the Brutus Cicero shows himself an astute critic of oratorical performance. This paper examines Cicero's opinions on the different modes of delivery employed by many of the orators he mentions in his dialogue.
Jon Hall
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The “Cicero”/“Cicero” Puzzling Case

Theoria, 2021
AbstractThis paper aims to solve the following twofold problem. Suppose that a rational speaker, Ralph, mistakenly takes (for some reason) the Roman orator Cicero and the World War II German spy Cicero to be the same individual. By sincerely uttering the sentence “Cicero is an orator and a spy”, (a) does Ralph use the name “Cicero” of the Roman orator ...
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Magnitudo Animi and Cosmic Politics in Cicero's De re Publica

The Classical journal, 2021
:This paper offers a fresh interpretation of the role played by the Dream of Scipio in Cicero's De re publica. It explores Cicero's key distinction between the cosmic and the local levels of statesmanship and the problems he sees with localism, and it ...
S. McConnell
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From moral theology to moral philosophy: Cicero and visions of humanity from Locke to Hume

Journal of the history of philosophy, 2020
Tim Stuart-Buttle's first monograph investigates the development of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the lens of Roman statesman and orator Cicero.
Max Skjönsberg
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Cicero

2022
As a politician, orator and philosopher, Cicero (106–43 BC) left countless traces in the memory of his contemporaries and later generations. Günter Gawlick shows where we come across these traces and their different evaluations in science, art and everyday life.
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