Souvenirs of Cicero - Shaping Memory in the Epistulae Ad Familiares

Souvenirs of Cicero studies the narratives that the letter collections of Cicero unfold and looks closely at the ancient format of Epistulae ad Familiares, the collection that incorporates Cicero's widest cast of correspondents and has been most vulnerable to later editorial reorganization. It attends to this collection's status as an artefact of the Roman imperial period.

List of contents

• Introduction: Receiving Cicero's Letters: A Brief History


• 1. Letters to the Editor: Constructing the Editor in Fam. 16


• 2. Enclosing the Collection: Frames of Meaning in Fam. 1 and Fam. 15


• 3. Reorienting the Collection: Cicero as Addressee and the Arena of Letters


• in Fam. 8


• 4. Ordering the Collection: History and Counter-history in Fam. 10-12


• 5. Structures of Feeling: The Household of Familiaritas in Fam. 13


• Epilogue


• Appendix


• Bibliography

About the author

Francesca K. A. Martelli is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, the author of Ovid's Revisions, and, with Giulia Sissa, co-editor of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination.

Summary

Souvenirs of Cicero studies the narratives that the letter collections of Cicero unfold and looks closely at the ancient format of Epistulae ad Familiares, the collection that incorporates Cicero's widest cast of correspondents and has been most vulnerable to later editorial reorganization. It attends to this collection's status as an artefact of the Roman imperial period.

Product details

• Authors: Francesca K a Martelli, Francesca K. A. Martelli, Francesca K. A. (Professor of Classics Martelli, Martelli Francesca K. A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9780197761960
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776196-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Classical texts, Ancient History, Literary theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Diaries, letters and journals, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, 1st century, c 99 to c 1 BCE