The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar Volk Katharina
An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic--and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of…
Specifikacia The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar Volk Katharina
An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic--and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, 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.It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest--and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that