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Book SynopsisThe ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming from the 4th-7th centuries (Bobbio, ps.-Asconius, and Gronovius). It shows the specific interpretative challenges of these corpora and offers interpretative case studies. Furthermore, it contextualizes the corpora within the learning and learned environment of their time, by contrasting them with rhetorical teaching (via the transmission of Cicero on papyri and his presence in the Rhetores Latini minores) and other ancient commentaries (on Homer and Demosthenes).
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Christoph Pieper and Dennis Pausch 1 Teaching Cicero through the Scholia: the ‘Active Reader’ in Late Antique Commentaries on Cicero’s Speeches Giuseppe La Bua 2 The Working Methods of Asconius Thomas J. Keeline 3 Cicero in Egypt: the Ciceronian Papyri and the Teaching of Latin in the East Fernanda Maffei 4 Ciceros Reden bei den Rhetores Latini Minores Thomas Riesenweber 5 The Canonization of Cicero in Ancient Commentaries Joseph Farrell 6 The Influence of Greek Commentaries on the Bobbio Scholia to Cicero Caroline Bishop 7 The Ciceronian Scholia and Asconius as Sources on Cicero and Other Roman Republican Orators Gesine Manuwald 8 ‘Cicero Cannot Be Separated from the State’: In Search for Cicero’s Political and Moral Exemplarity in Asconius and the Scholia Bobiensia Christoph Pieper 9 Deinceps haec omnia non dicta, sed scripta contra reum: The Fictional Verrines in the Ciceronian Scholia and beyond Christoph Schwameis 10 Reading the Scholia Gronoviana: Ambiguity and Veiled Language in the Interpretation of Cicero’s Caesarian Orations Giovanni Margiotta Index
