Resumen de Taking no interest in Atticus
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.)
