Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Cicero’s writings should be interpreted as a single narrative, which teleologically records the progress of his public life from its outset. Close attention to his pre-consular speeches shows the extent to which he edited his actions in an attempt to show his unimpeded rise up the cursus honorum and the importance of the Verrines in re-energising his career at a point at which -despite his best textual efforts -it was flagging. Interpretation of Cicero’s speeches and other writings within an autobiographical framework also throws light on the relationship between spoken and written in the conduct of Roman political life.
Source: Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz
Author: Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W272393918