The Scholia on Cicero's Speeches

Contexts and Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51643-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 476, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming from the 4th-7th centuries (Bobbio, ps.-Asconius, and Gronovius). It shows the specific interpretative challenges of these corpora and offers interpretative case studies. Furthermore, it contextualizes the corpora within the learning and learned environment of their time, by contrasting them with rhetorical teaching (via the transmission of Cicero on papyri and his presence in the Rhetores Latini minores) and other ancient commentaries (on Homer and Demosthenes).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pieper, Christoph

Dennis, Pausch

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Christoph Pieper and Dennis Pausch

1 Teaching Cicero through the Scholia: the ‘Active Reader’ in Late Antique Commentaries on Cicero’s Speeches

Giuseppe La Bua

2 The Working Methods of Asconius

Thomas J. Keeline

3 Cicero in Egypt: the Ciceronian Papyri and the Teaching of Latin in the East

Fernanda Maffei

4 Ciceros Reden bei den Rhetores Latini Minores

Thomas Riesenweber

5 The Canonization of Cicero in Ancient Commentaries

Joseph Farrell

6 The Influence of Greek Commentaries on the Bobbio Scholia to Cicero

Caroline Bishop

7 The Ciceronian Scholia and Asconius as Sources on Cicero and Other Roman Republican Orators

Gesine Manuwald

8 ‘Cicero Cannot Be Separated from the State’: In Search for Cicero’s Political and Moral Exemplarity in Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia

Christoph Pieper

9 Deinceps haec omnia non dicta, sed scripta contra reum: The Fictional Verrines in the Ciceronian Scholia and beyond

Christoph Schwameis

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

Giovanni Margiotta

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis Pausch, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor Latin at Philipps-Universität Marburg. His research interests include Roman historiography and Augustan poetry, but also focus on invective texts, among others the speeches written by Cicero.

Christoph Pieper, Ph.D. (2008), is University Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. His research focuses on Roman oratory, especially Cicero and the Ciceronian tradition, and on the literature of 15th-century Florence.

Contributors are: Caroline Bishop, Joseph Farrell, Thomas J. Keeline, Giuseppe La Bua, Fernanda Maffei, Gesine Manuwald, Giovanni Margiotta, Christoph Pieper, Thomas Riesenweber, Christoph Schwameis.