05439nam 2201225Ia 450 991046172620332120200520144314.01-280-49451-497866135897431-4008-4216-610.1515/9781400842162(CKB)2670000000155725(EBL)868304(OCoLC)779828666(SSID)ssj0000613188(PQKBManifestationID)11363210(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613188(PQKBWorkID)10584993(PQKB)10480733(MiAaPQ)EBC868304(StDuBDS)EDZ0000406909(MdBmJHUP)muse37062(DE-B1597)447842(OCoLC)979579594(DE-B1597)9781400842162(Au-PeEL)EBL868304(CaPaEBR)ebr10539191(CaONFJC)MIL358974(EXLCZ)99267000000015572520110719d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA written republic[electronic resource] Cicero's philosophical politics /Yelena BarazCourse BookPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Pressc20121 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-15332-9 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces -- Chapter 2. On a More Personal Note -- Chapter 3. The Gift of Philosophy : The Treatises as Translations -- Chapter 4. With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space -- Chapter 5. Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management -- Chapter 6. Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General IndexIn the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero's decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up this question and makes the case that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. Baraz examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces--a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project. He presents his philosophy as intimately connected to the new political circumstances and his exclusion from politics. His goal--to benefit the state by providing new moral resources for the Roman elite--was traditional, even if his method of translating Greek philosophical knowledge into Latin and combining Greek sources with Roman heritage was unorthodox. A Written Republic provides a new perspective on Cicero's conception of his philosophical project while also adding to the broader picture of late-Roman political, intellectual, and cultural life.Philosophy, AncientRomePolitics and government265-30 B.CElectronic books.Academic Skepticism.Bellum Catilinae.Bellum Iugurthinum.Cato the Younger.Cicero.De Divinatione.De Finibus.De Natura Deorum.De Officiis.De Senectute.Ennius.Julius Caesar.Marcus the Younger.Paradoxa Stoicorum.Quintus Cicero.Rhetorica ad Herennium.Roman elite.Sallust.Topica.Tullia.Tusculan Disputations.action.amicitia.character.civil war.cultural life.dedicatees.dictatorship.intellectual activity.intellectual life.late Roman republic.letters.mos maiorum.negotium.oratory.otium.patriotism.philosophical writings.philosophy.political life.politics.prefaces.public life.readers.rhetoric.translation.treatises.volumen prohoemiorum.Philosophy, Ancient.320.1Baraz Yelena1975-480293MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461726203321A written republic2456049UNINA