Resumen de The first person in Cicero’s letters to Atticus
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.
