The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire: The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend

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Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a "new man" and leading a complex and contradictory life. After his murder in 43 BC, he was indeed remembered for his life and his works - but not for all of them. This book explores Cicero's reception in the early Roman Empire, showing what was remembered and why. It argues that early imperial politics and Cicero's schoolroom canonization had pervasive effects on his reception, with declamation and the schoolroom mediating and even creating his memory in subsequent generations.  Read more... Introduction An Orientation Scope and Structure 1 Pro Milone: Reading Cicero in the Schoolroom The Miloniana Commentary Tradition: Sources Pro Milone: Background to the Speech and Outline Quintilian on How to Read a Speech Themes and Methods of Instruction The Introductory praelectio Exordium Dispelling praeiudicia Narratio Argumentatio Peroratio Conclusion 2 Eloquence (Dis)embodied: The Textualization of Cicero A Modern Syncrisis The Declamatory Classroom Cicero as Model of EloquenceCicero and the Decline of Eloquence The Ancient Syncrisis: Cicero and Demosthenes Conclusion 3 Remaking Cicero in the Schoolroom: Cicero's Death Popillius the Parricide Propaganda and Declamation The Death of Cicero: Declaimers Writing History The Death of Cicero: Historians Writing Declamation The Death of Cicero: Livy et al. Greek Historians on Cicero's Death 4 Pro Cicerone/In Ciceronem: How to Criticize Cicero Pseudepigraphic Sources Consul and nouus homo Exile The "Philippics" of Appian and Dio Coda: The Intertextual Declamatory Aesthetic 5 Seneca the Younger and CiceroDeclamatory Ciceronian Presences Philosophical Ciceronian Absences Senecan Form and Function Senecan Educational Theory Conclusion 6 Tacitus: Dialogus de Cicerone? Quintilian Dialogus de oratoribus: Authorship, Date, and Lacuna Dialogus de oratoribus: Structure and Characters Cicero in the Dialogus: Formal Elements Cicero as Leitmotif Conclusion 7 Est . . . mihi cum Cicerone aemulatio: Pliny's Cicero Genre and Plinian Artistry Cicero in the Epistulae Echoes of Ciceronian Letters in the Epistulae Conclusion Epilogue: The Early Empire and Beyond Works CitedGeneral Index Index Locorum