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The Roman republic of letters : scholarship, philosophy, and politics in the age of Cicero and Caesar / Katharina Volk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Volk, Katharina, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning and scholarship--Rome--History.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Politics and culture--Rome--History.
- Politics and culture.
- Politics and literature--Rome--History.
- Politics and literature.
- Republicanism--Rome--History.
- Republicanism.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.
- Rome--Intellectual life.
- Rome--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 379 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Res publica of letters
- Engaged philosophy
- Philosophy after Pharsalus
- The invention of Rome
- Coopting the cosmos
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 9780691224343
- 069122434X
- OCLC:
- 1258044715
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