![]() Raster for allowing me to read his commentary on Pro Sestio prior to publication to Jonathan Powell andjohn Ramsey for helpful comments on a portion of my MS to T. Kenney and Philip Hardie, the Latin editors of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, for their support and encouragement to Michael Sharp of Cambridge University Press for his patience, encouragement, and help in keeping the project on track to the Academic Senate of the University of California, Los Angeles, for providing me with support for this research during the 2003-4 academic year to Paul Naiditch, now Emeritus Classics Bibliographer of the UCLA Young Research Library, for kind help in obtaining relevant materials to Robert A. ![]() Habicht (1990) 3 5.įinally, it is a pleasure to acknowledge the institutions and individuals who have helped this work during its several years’ gestation. ![]() Dominic Berry’s new translation of the Catilinarians (and other major political speeches of C.’s) appeared just as this book was about to go to press readers will find many valuable observations there in the circumstances I have had to cite and engage with it less frequently than I would otherwise have done.2 Gf. In default of an up-to-date and fully satisfactory anglophone Latin reference grammar, I have been driven to cite a variety of works and stylistic studies. Insofar as this book finds its way into classrooms, I rely on the tact and insight of teachers to mediate. I do not expect all readers to be able to take advantage of all the citations, though many advanced readers will, and less advanced ones may be spurred to further study. I have cited, by way of agreement or disagreement, works of diverse provenance and written in various languages. The notes set the text into the context of C.’s ideas and usage (as well as the history of Latin as appropriate) and provide necessary historical background they also refer readers to sources, primary and secondary, that can lead them further. In preparing this volume I have sought to exploit the latest textual advances. Given that he is the best-documented fig ure of the ancient pagan world, students of antiquity will continue to find him an inexhaustible source of insight and wonder as well as irritation and frustration. as conditioned by his own historical circumstances/ C.’s position in the history of Western thought and edu cation makes him worth the acquaintance of anyone working within that tradition or seeking to understand it from without. We are beginning to understand Mommsen’s admiration for Caesar and denigration of C. His creation of a distinctive and powerful prose style exploiting to the full the resources and registers of the Latin of his day commands, or should command, admiration in an age when language and style tend to be handled carelessly. ![]() But the fact that C., too, was human makes him more, not less interesting. Blind hero-worship is clearly inappropriate, as Petrarch already realized upon discovery of C.’s letters. The fact that his place in the curriculum can no longer be taken for granted may prompt some salutary reflection on C. Mommsen has often colored the judgment of subsequent historians of antiquity1 and thus fed a neglect of, if not outright hostility to, C. Last, but not least, the negative assessment of C. In addition, the palpable decline of oratory in the political life of the Western democracies made C.’s products seem less relevant to contemporary concerns. But in the latter half of the twentieth century interest in producing such works tapered off as the traditional classical curriculum came under fire and lists of set books were altered in the hope of reinvigorating the subject. There are, of course, various commentaries, mostly of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century vintage, intended to introduce this corpus to school children. PREFACE To produce a new commented edition of Cicero’s Catilinarians may seem like a woefully unoriginal, if not altogether superfluous undertaking. C A T I L I N A M O R A T IO N E SĬ om m entary Appendix / Historical sources cited Appendix 2 The date of Catilinarian 1 Appendix 3 Prose rhythm References Indexes 1 Latin words 2 G reek words 3 G eneral CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations Map i The Roman world in 63 b g Map 2 Rome, in the late Republic Chronological table: Catiline’s life and his conspiracyĬatiline’s career down to 63 Background to the conspiracy T h e conspiracy T h e Catilinariam: publication, possible revision Types of rhetoric within the Catilinarian corpus Influence through the centuries Language and style T h e text
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