Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107068582)

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 schoolteachers in antiquity relied on Cicero's oratory to supervise the growth of the young into intellectual maturity. By reconstructing the main phases of textual transmission, from the first authorial dissemination of the speeches to the medieval manuscripts, and by re-examining the abundant evidence on Ciceronian scholarship from the first to the sixth century CE, Cicero and Roman Education traces the history of the exegetical tradition on Cicero's oratory and re-assesses the 'didactic' function of the speeches, whose preservation was largely determined by pedagogical factors.

Author: Giuseppe La Bua
ISBN-10: 1107068584
ISBN-13: 9781107068582
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2019
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 9.90w x 1.00d