Cicero and Roman Education

Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of himself as statesman and orator. He memorialized his spiritual and oratorical self by means of a very solid body of texts. Educationalists and schoolteachers in antiquity relied on Cicero''s oratory to supervise the growth of the young into intellectual maturity. By reconstructing the main phases of textual transmission, from...