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INGO GILDENHARD

PAIDEIA ROMANA : CICERO’S TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS

Paideia Romana: Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

takes a new look at an unloved text

of the western canon to reveal it as a punchy and profoundly original work, arguably

Cicero’s most ingenious literary response to the tyranny of Caesar. The book shows

how the

Tusculans

’ much lambasted literary design, critically isolated prefaces, and

overlooked didactic plot start to cohere once we read the dialogue for what it is: not a

Latin treatise in Greek philosophy, but a Roman drama in education, with a strong

political subtext. The first chapter (‘The form - enigmas and answers’) tries to make

sense of those features of the work that scholars have found baffling or disappointing,

such as the nondescript characters, the uncertain genre, or the lack of setting. Chapter

2 (‘The prologues -

in tyrannum

and cultural warfare’) analyses how Cicero in his

prologues to the five individual books situates his desire to create and teach a ‘Latin

philosophy’ within wider contexts, in particular the dictatorship of Caesar and the

intellectual traditions of Greece and Rome. The final chapter 3 (‘The plot - teacher and

student’) explores the pedagogy enacted in the dialogue as a form of constructive

outreach, addressed to a future generation of Roman aristocrats. With its emphasis on

rhetoric, literary artistry, and historical context, the present volume breaks with earlier

scholarship on the

Tusculans

and thereby makes a significant contribution to the

on-going reassessment of Cicero’s thought and authorial practice.

INGO GILDENHARD is Reader in Latin Literature and Roman Culture at the

University of Durham

CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL JOURNAL

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY

SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME 30

EDITORS

TIM WHITMARSH, JAMES WARREN

PAIDEIA ROMANA

CICERO’S

TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS

INGO GILDENHARD

(Durham University)

Published by The Cambridge Philological Society.

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ISBN 978 0 906014 29 5

This book is available direct from Oxbow Books, Park End Place, Oxford, OX1 1HN.

www.oxbowbooks.com

Printed by Cam bridge University Press.

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