Cicero during the Enlightenment

Fox, Matthew

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“…Thanks to the recent revival of interest in Pope's Homer the only major area of eighteenth‐century classicism that still feels substantially underexplored is the period's interest in Cicero as both a moralist and a rhetorician. These aspects of his reception have been discussed (Fox, 2013; Hedrick, 2021; Ingram, 2015; Packham, 2013; Stuart‐Buttle, 2019), often in connection to Burke (Bullard, 2011; Vasunia, 2013, pp. 257–60; Rolli, 2019), but not currently to the extent that reflects Cicero's prominence in the period.…”

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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

Calvert

2022

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This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth-century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject-areas: non-elite readers of classical literature; the status of Homeric epic; the relationship between classical literature, Celticism and the Gothic; Horatianism; georgic poetry. The article then addresses the classical authors, texts and genres from outside of these areas which have also recently received scholarly attention, and identifies further topics of enquiry which require examining to provide the fullest picture of the eighteenth century's engagement with the literature of antiquity.

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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

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2022

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“… 4 For an overview of modern Plinian reception and further references, see Whitton and Gibson (forthcoming). On Cicero at this period see first Fox (2013a); on Horace, Money (2007) and Sowerby (2012). …”

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Minerva on the Surrey Downs: Reading Pliny (And Horace) With John Toland

Whitton

2014

Camb. class. j.

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John Toland's Description of Epsom (1711) is one of the most remarkable creative responses, ancient or modern, to Pliny's Epistles. Drawing on the villa letters and the collection as a whole for both topographical description and self-styling, Toland moulds himself after an intensely ruralist – and strikingly Horatian – Pliny. This article reads Epsom together with Toland's translations from the Epistles (1711–12) as a case study in reception which can also shed fresh light on Pliny's own epistolary self-portraiture.

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Cicero and Roman Education

Bua¹

2019

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Cicero during the Enlightenment

Cited by 67 publications

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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

Minerva on the Surrey Downs: Reading Pliny (And Horace) With John Toland

Cicero and Roman Education

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