The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

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Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became seminal texts in political theory and in the reception and study of the Classics. This Companion discusses the whole range of Cicero's writings, with particular emphasis on their links with the literary culture of the late Republic, their significance to Cicero's public career and their reception in later periods. Contents CONTRIBUTORS MAP ABBREVIATIONS Introduction Cicero and the intellectual milieu of the late Republic Cicero’s rhetorical theory Cicero’s style Writing philosophy Cicero’s poetry The law in Cicero’s writings Cicero and Roman identity The political impact of Cicero’s speeches Cicero, oratory and public life Cicero, tradition and performance Political philosophy Writer and addressee in Cicero’s letters Saviour of the Republic and Father of the Fatherland: Cicero and political crisis Tully’s boat: responses to Cicero in the imperial period Cicero in late antiquity Cicero in the Renaissance Cicero during the Enlightenment Nineteenth-century Ciceros Twentieth/twenty-first-century Cicero(s) Cicero's works Bibliography Index locorum General index