Cicero’s Constantia in Theory and Practice

Tracy, Catherine

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“…2.4.4 (Keeline 2018, 107; 136; 157-158; 171-173; 183; 199). See alsoTracy 2012 andFulkerson 2013 for positive reassessments of Cicero's apparent lack of consistency.Giovanni Margiotta -9789004516441 Downloaded from Brill.com 05/27/2024 12:25:12AM via Open Access. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.…”

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Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations

Margiotta¹

2023

The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches

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“…470 Hodgson (2017) 258. 471 On constantia as one of Cicero's guiding moral and philosophical principles see Tracy (2012). 472 Mitchell (1991) 307.…”

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All Things to All Men: Ethos in Cicero’s Post-Ides Correspondence

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In the wake of Caesar’s assassination, Cicero was without the necessary magisterial and martial authority to direct affairs and his influence over the fractious Senate was fragile at best. So, too, did he face the challenge of physical distance. With influential statesmen scattered across the Roman world, the reliance on correspondence for political manoeuvring and the performance of self was more pronounced than ever before. Cicero’s letters, then, played an essential role in his self-fashioning of authority after the Ides of March. This thesis illuminates the nuanced, critical, and underappreciated role that Cicero’s correspondence played in his cultivation of fresh influence after Caesar’s death by assessing the post-Ides corpus through the lens of ethos. In particular, Aristotle’s conception of ethos as comprising phronesis (‘practical wisdom’ or ‘prudence’), eunoia (‘goodwill’ or ‘benevolence’), and aretē excellence’ or ‘moral virtue’) provides a valuable framework. When applied to the letters, three distinct instances of epistolary persona creation are revealed: Cicero as Nestor, Cicero as amicus, and Cicero as saviour. Each of these personae, it is demonstrated, are ultimately employed by the statesman to establish authority as the res publica’s helmsman.

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All Things to All Men: Ethos in Cicero’s Post-Ides Correspondence

Galloway¹

2021

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In the wake of Caesar’s assassination, Cicero was without the necessary magisterial and martial authority to direct affairs and his influence over the fractious Senate was fragile at best. So, too, did he face the challenge of physical distance. With influential statesmen scattered across the Roman world, the reliance on correspondence for political manoeuvring and the performance of self was more pronounced than ever before. Cicero’s letters, then, played an essential role in his self-fashioning of authority after the Ides of March. This thesis illuminates the nuanced, critical, and underappreciated role that Cicero’s correspondence played in his cultivation of fresh influence after Caesar’s death by assessing the post-Ides corpus through the lens of ethos. In particular, Aristotle’s conception of ethos as comprising phronesis (‘practical wisdom’ or ‘prudence’), eunoia (‘goodwill’ or ‘benevolence’), and aretē excellence’ or ‘moral virtue’) provides a valuable framework. When applied to the letters, three distinct instances of epistolary persona creation are revealed: Cicero as Nestor, Cicero as amicus, and Cicero as saviour. Each of these personae, it is demonstrated, are ultimately employed by the statesman to establish authority as the res publica’s helmsman.

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Cicero’s Constantia in Theory and Practice

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Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations

Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations

All Things to All Men: Ethos in Cicero’s Post-Ides Correspondence

All Things to All Men: Ethos in Cicero’s Post-Ides Correspondence

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