The first person in Cicero’s letters to Atticus

• G. O. Hutchinson ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Oxford

     University of Oxford

     Oxford District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Hermathena, ISSN 0018-0750, Nº. 202-203, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The epistolary Cicero: further readings in the Letters), págs. 43-70
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The first person in Cicero is fundamental to his writing, not just amusing vanity. In some of his literary forms it is unusually deployed; in dialogues and speeches it grows in importance. In letters, it belongs; Cicero’s writing develops it, especially in the Epistulae ad Atticum, in ways he does not use elsewhere. The style and the treatment of self are unusual: sudden alterations, wide vision curtly expressed, vulnerability, avoidance of agency, interaction with the second person, isolation, quasi-monologue – a distinctive and impressive mode of writing is created. These texts interact with other texts, and the verbal culture and intellectual issues of the period: they are writing, no less than his generally circulated works, and they are unique. Att. 4.5, 4.18, 12.14, 13.13, 14.21, 16.7, Q Fr. 3.5, Consol. fr. 23, First and Second Philippics are among the passages and works discussed.