Cicero: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium
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- Publication planned for: January 2025
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108844079
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This is the first scholarly commentary on Cicero's Divinatio in Caecilium and the first new critical edition in over 100 years. The commentary demonstrates that the Divinatio was atypical of the genre. In both form and content, the speech is styled as a forensic prosecution rather than a pre-trial deliberation. It also functions as an effective piece of literary criticism and a pedagogical treatise to preface the Verrine corpus. Consequently scholars are encouraged to reconsider how published oratory in Rome functioned as teaching aid, personal propaganda, historical record, and literary production. The Divinatio touches on issues with strong resonance for contemporary society: the responsibility of the government to represent and defend marginalised communities, cultural identity and integration in a multi-ethnic society, the perils of persuasive speech, abuses of political and military power, due process of law, and changing notions of intellectual and cultural property.
Read more- A new, complete, and accurate critical edition in light of recent manuscript discoveries
- Provides a thorough analysis of Cicero's rhetorical, legal, and pedagogical techniques in the speech
- Demonstrates the shortcomings of the long-held assumptions about the Roman process of divinatio that were based on an uncritical reading of this speech
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- Publication planned for: January 2025
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108844079
- length: 450 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
- availability: Not yet published - available from January 2025
Table of Contents
Introduction
Text and Critical Apparatus
Commentary
Appendixes.
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