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The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming from the 4th-7th centuries (Bobbio, ps.-Asconius, and Gronovius). It shows the specific interpretative challenges of these corpora and offers interpretative case studies. Furthermore, it contextualizes the corpora within the learning and learned environment of their time, by contrasting them with rhetorical teaching (via the transmission of Cicero on papyri and his presence in the Rhetores Latini minores) and other ancient commentaries (on Homer and Demosthenes).

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Author:   Christoph Pieper ,  Dennis Pausch
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   476
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004516434

ISBN 10:   9004516433
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   11 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction  Christoph Pieper and Dennis Pausch 1 Teaching Cicero through the Scholia: the ‘Active Reader’ in Late Antique Commentaries on Cicero’s Speeches  Giuseppe La Bua 2 The Working Methods of Asconius  Thomas J. Keeline 3 Cicero in Egypt: the Ciceronian Papyri and the Teaching of Latin in the East  Fernanda Maffei 4 Ciceros Reden bei den Rhetores Latini Minores  Thomas Riesenweber 5 The Canonization of Cicero in Ancient Commentaries  Joseph Farrell 6 The Influence of Greek Commentaries on the Bobbio Scholia to Cicero  Caroline Bishop 7 The Ciceronian Scholia and Asconius as Sources on Cicero and Other Roman Republican Orators  Gesine Manuwald 8 ‘Cicero Cannot Be Separated from the State’: In Search for Cicero’s Political and Moral Exemplarity in Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia  Christoph Pieper 9 Deinceps haec omnia non dicta, sed scripta contra reum: The Fictional Verrines in the Ciceronian Scholia and beyond  Christoph Schwameis 10 Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations  Giovanni Margiotta Index

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Dennis Pausch, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor Latin at Philipps-Universität Marburg. His research interests include Roman historiography and Augustan poetry, but also focus on invective texts, among others the speeches written by Cicero. Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008), is University Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. His research focuses on Roman oratory, especially Cicero and the Ciceronian tradition, and on the literature of 15th-century Florence. Contributors are: Caroline Bishop, Joseph Farrell, Thomas J. Keeline, Giuseppe La Bua, Fernanda Maffei, Gesine Manuwald, Giovanni Margiotta, Christoph Pieper, Thomas Riesenweber, Christoph Schwameis.

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