1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437645903321

Autore

Velden Bram van der

Titolo

Reading Cicero’s final years : receptions of the Post-Caesarian works up to the Sixteenth Century – with two Epilogues / / edited by Christoph Pieper and Bram van der Velden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-071631-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)

Collana

CICERO ; ; 3

Disciplina

937.050924

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Summary of the Chapters -- Introduction -- Were Cicero’s Philippics the Cause of his Death? -- The Thrill of Defeat -- Ille regit dictis animos -- Man of Peace? -- Libera uoluntas -- Ciceronian Reception in the Epistula ad Octauianum -- Can it Ever be Wise to Kill the Tyrant? -- Bruni, Cicero, and their Manifesto for Republicanism -- Multilayered Appropriation(s) -- Marc-Antoine Muret and his Lectures on Cicero’s De officiis -- First Epilogue -- Second Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final years have shaped Cicero’s reception in an special way, as they have condensed and enlarged themes that his life stands for: on the positive side his fight for freedom and the republic against mighty opponents (for which he would finally be killed); on the other hand his inconsistency in terms of political alliances and tendency to overestimate his own influence. For that reason, many later readers viewed the final months of Cicero's life as his swan song, and as representing the essence of his life as a whole.The fixed scope of this volume facilitates an analysis of the underlying debates about the



historical character Cicero and his textual legacy (speeches, letters and philosophical works) through the ages, stretching from antiquity itself to the present day. Major themes negotiated in this volume are the influence of Cicero’s regular attempts to anticipate his later reception; the question of whether or not Cicero showed consistency in his behaviour; his debatable heroism with regard to republican freedom; and the interaction between philosophy, rhetoric and politics.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797423503321

Autore

Grabo Cynthia M.

Titolo

Handbook of warning intelligence : complete declassified edition / / Cynthia Grabo, with Jan Goldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4814-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Collana

Security and professional intelligence education series (SPIES) ; ; 21

Disciplina

327.12

Soggetti

Intelligence service - Methodology

Intelligence service - United States - Methodology

Intelligence service - United States - History - 20th century

Cold War

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous edition published: Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, 2010, under title Handbook of warning intelligence, as part of the Scarecrow professional intelligence education series, number 12.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword to the new edition -- Foreword to the previous edition -- Author's note to the original edition -- Part 1. Why warning intelligence and what is it? Some fundamentals -- Part 2. Organization and tools of the trade -- Part 3. Introduction to the analytical method -- Part 4. Specific problems of military analysis -- Part 5. Specific problems of political, civil and economic analysis -- Part 6. Some major analytical problems -- Part 7. Problems of particular types of warfare -- Part 8. Reaching and reporting the warning judgment -- Part 9. Conclusions.



Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years. Originally written as a manual for training intelligence analysts, it explains the fundamentals of intelligence analysis and forecasting, discusses military analysis, as well as the difficulties in understanding political, civil, and economic analysis and assessing what it means for analysts to have ""warning judgment."" This new edition includes the final ten chapters recently released by the government. This is the manuscript as it was originally intended to be published by the author in 1972.