A written republic : Cicero's philosophical politics / Yelena Baraz.

In 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, pe...

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Main Author: Baraz, Yelena, 1975-
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Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
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505 0 |a Otiose otium: the status of intellectual activity in late republican prefaces -- On a more personal note: philosophy in the letters -- The gift of philosophy: the treatises as translations -- With the same voice: oratory as a transitional space -- Reading a Ciceronian preface: strategies of reader management -- Philosophy after Caesar: the new direction. 
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