A written republic : Cicero's philosophical politics / Yelena Baraz.
In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, pe...
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Table of Contents:
- Otiose otium: the status of intellectual activity in late republican prefaces
- On a more personal note: philosophy in the letters
- The gift of philosophy: the treatises as translations
- With the same voice: oratory as a transitional space
- Reading a Ciceronian preface: strategies of reader management
- Philosophy after Caesar: the new direction.