Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus

Cicero''s Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar''s defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book studies the work from several distinct yet interre...