Taking no interest in Atticus

• John Henderson ^[1]
  1. [1] King's College

     King's College

     City of Wilkes-Barre, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Hermathena, ISSN 0018-0750, Nº. 202-203, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The epistolary Cicero: further readings in the Letters), págs. 19-42
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Inspection of the Epistulae ad Atticum collection points to self-expression and dramatisation of self in the theatre of epistolarity as its all-but-unwavering praxis. Once prima facie exceptions such as themes of ill-health and woe concerning the alter ego Atticus and wife Terentia construe as Cicero’s own projection by self-extension to nearest and dearest, remarkably little space, so investment of self, is allocated to the predicaments, preoccupations, and welfare of addressees or third parties. These texts write a threatened and apprehensive political ambience through circumscription of interpersonal sociality. (For contrast, compare the treatment of Trebatius in Epistulae ad familiares 7.)