{"product_id":"politics-and-poetics-of-ciceros-brutus-9781108853156","title":"Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus","description":"\u003cp\u003eCicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book is the first study of the work from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives: Cicero's account of oratorical history, the confrontation with Caesar, and the exploration of what it means to write a history of an artistic practice. Close readings of this dialogue-including its apparent contradictions and tendentious fabrications-reveal a crucial and crucially productive moment in Greco-Roman thought. Cicero, this book argues, created the first nuanced, sophisticated, and ultimately 'modern' literary history, crafting both a compelling justification of Rome's oratorical traditions and also laying a foundation for literary historiography that abides to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52888979734807,"sku":null,"price":78.75,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/te\/products\/politics-and-poetics-of-ciceros-brutus-9781108853156","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}