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Introduction

Christopher S. van den Berg
Christopher S. van den Berg
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Amherst College, Massachusetts
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The Introduction outlines crucial intellectual contexts and frameworks for thinking about how Cicero's Brutus is a crucial intervention in the the civic crisis and the writing of literary history. It also surveys the scholarship to date and examines how Cicero's project reflects general trends in academic inquiry and civic government.

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literary historyscholarshipRomerepublicCiceroCaesarcivil war
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The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
The Invention of Literary History
 , pp. 1 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Introduction
  • Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's <I>Brutus</I>
  • Online publication: 28 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856447.002
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  • Introduction
  • Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's <I>Brutus</I>
  • Online publication: 28 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856447.002
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  • Introduction
  • Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's <I>Brutus</I>
  • Online publication: 28 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856447.002
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