Cicero''s Catilinarians

In this, the first book-length discussion of Cicero's Catilinarians, D. H. Berry considers how the speeches should be interpreted as literature. Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time?

About the author

D. H. Berry is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published an edition of Cicero's Pro P. Sulla Oratio (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 1996) and two volumes in Oxford World's Classics, Cicero: Defence Speeches (2000) and Cicero: Political Speeches (2006).

Summary

In this, the first book-length discussion of Cicero's Catilinarians, D. H. Berry considers how the speeches should be interpreted as literature. Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time?

Additional text

Berry, then, has produced an important book with which serious students of the Catilinarians will want to engage closely... He has diligently collected and sifted relevant evidence and has set out his case with flair. Building on the work of predecessors, he mounts a strong argument for extensive revision of Catil. 4 and parts of Catil 3. Perhaps Berry's main contribution is to formulate systematically how the publication of the speeches after an interval of two and a half years served Cicero's political interests in 60.

Product details

• Authors: D. H. Berry, D. H. (Senior Lecturer in Classics Berry, Berry D. H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780195326468
• ISBN: 978-0-19-532646-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature; Oxford Approaches to Classical
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, Classical texts, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient, classical and medieval texts