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Record Nr.

UNISA996209834203316

Autore

Fox Matthew (Matthew Aaron)

Titolo

Cicero's philosophy of history [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Fox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16087-3

9786611160876

0-19-152639-8

1-4356-2150-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

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 (p. [322]-336) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Struggle, compensation, and argument in Cicero's philosophy -- Reading and reception -- Literature, history, and philosophy : the example of De re publica -- History with rhetoric, rhetoric with history : De oratore and De legibus  -- History and memory -- Brutus -- Divination, history, and superstition -- Ironic history in the Roman tradition -- Cicero from Enlightenment to idealism -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Cicero has long been seen to embody the values of the Roman republic. This provocative study of Cicero's use of history reveals that rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditions. Matthew Fox looks to the scepticism of Cicero's philosophical education for an understanding of his perspective on Rome's history, and argues that neglect of thesceptical tradition has transformed the doubting, ambiguous Cicero into the confident proponent of Roman values. Through