Cicero, Post reditum speeches : introduction, text, translation, and commentary / Gesine Manuwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manuwald, Gesine, author, editor, translator.

Contributor:

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin--History and criticism.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.

Exiles--Rome--Early works to 1800.

Exiles.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Post reditum in Senatu.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Post reditum ad Quirites.

Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation.

Speeches (Cicero, Marcus Tullius).

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Speeches.

Genre:

speeches (documents)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Speeches.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- Translations into English.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Post reditum speeches

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English text, partially translated from the Latin.

Summary:

"The high point in Cicero's life (according to his own assessment), his reaching the consulship at the earliest opportunity in 63 BCE and his successful confrontation of the Catilinarian Conspiracy during that year, was soon followed by a backlash, which made Cicero withdraw from Rome in 58 to 57 BCE. Upon return to Rome from this absence (traditionally called 'exile' by a term Cicero himself never uses in this context), Cicero delivered two speeches, in the Senate and before the People respectively, to express his gratitude for his recall and to establish himself again as a respected senior statesmen. This volume offers the first-full scale commentary in English, including a revised Latin text and a fresh English translation, on these speeches, which have suffered from neglect in scholarship and doubts about their authenticity. This book outlines their particular nature, the characteristics of their specific oratorical genre and their importance as documents of Cicero's techniques as an orator and of the strategies of presenting himself. In addition, the book includes the spurious speech, Pridie quam in exilium iret, that Cicero supposedly gave on the eve of his departure. Thus, offering the first proper study of this speech, this volume presents all oratorical material related to Cicero's departure from and return to Rome in a single volume and enables direct comparison between speeches now confirmed to be genuine and a later spurious speech, which also gives insights into the reception history of Cicero's works. This book will therefore be an essential tool especially for Classicists and Ancient Historians interested in Cicero, in exile literature and in the history of the Roman Republic and Roman oratory."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Text and translation

Testimonia

M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum in senatu oratio

M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum ad Quirites oratio

[M. Tulli Ciceronis] Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret

Commentary

Introduction

Notes

Outline of structure and contents

Bibliography

1. Editions, commentaries, and translations of the three speeches

2. Other works cited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-391) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Post reditum in Senatu. English (Manuwald)

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Post reditum in Senatu. Latin (Manuwald)

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Post reditum ad Quirites. English (Manuwald)

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Post reditum ad Quirites. Latin (Manuwald)

Container of: Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret. English (Manuwald)

Container of: Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret. Latin (Manuwald)

ISBN:

9780198850755

0198850751

OCLC:

1285703400

Publisher Number:

99991672814