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The Roman republic of letters scholarship, philosophy, and politics in the age of Cicero and Caesar
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| 서명/저자사항 | The Roman republic of letters : scholarship, philosophy, and politics in the age of Cicero and Caesar/ Katharina Volk. |
| 개인저자 | Volk, Katharina,1969- author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Volk, Katharina, 1969- Roman republic of letters Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2021] 9780691193878 |
| ISBN | 069122434X 9780691224343 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Introduction -- Res publica of letters -- Engaged philosophy -- Philosophy after Pharsalus -- The invention of Rome -- Coopting the cosmos -- Conclusion. |
| 요약 | "An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In 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 brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these "senator scholars" as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another-and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome's remarkable "republic of letters" was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk's riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | Rome --History --Republic, 265-30 B.C. Rome --Politics and government --265-30 B.C. Rome --Intellectual life. Rome --Social life and customs. Rome (Empire) --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Learning and scholarship --Rome --History. Politics and culture --Rome --History. Politics and literature --Rome --History. Republicanism --Rome --History. PHILOSOPHY / Political. HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. Intellectual life. Learning and scholarship. Manners and customs. Politics and culture. Politics and government. Politics and literature. Republicanism. |
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