The Lost Republic : Cicero's de Oratore and de Re Publica

The Lost Republic : Cicero's de Oratore and de Re Publica / James E.G. Zetzel.

The Lost Republic offers a major, new interpretation of Cicero's dialogues On the Orator and On the Commonwealth. James Zetzel shows how Cicero shaped the two works as complementary explorations of the intellectual and moral underpinnings of civil society in the last years of the Roman Republic...

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Main Author: Zetzel, James E. G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. > De oratore.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. > De republica.
De oratore (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
De republica (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
Political ethics > Early works to 1800.
Republicanism > Early works to 1800.
Political ethics
Republicanism
Electronic books.
Early works
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mansuetiores musae
  • Part 1
  • 1. Genus dialogorum meorum
  • 2. Cogitanti mihi
  • 3. Vetera repetenti
  • 4. Ratio dicendi
  • 5. Eloquentem adhuc neminem
  • 6. Praepotens et gloriosa philosophia
  • 7. Cycnea vox
  • Part 2
  • 8. Prequel and Sequel
  • 9. The Lost Republic
  • 10. Dialogue and Dissatisfaction
  • 11. Optimus status civitatis
  • 12. Rerum publicarum natura
  • 13. Iuris consensus
  • 14. I Never Died, Said He
  • Conclusion: The Lost Republic
  • Appendix: Speeches and Trials

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