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[[Cicero]]'s '''Brutus''' (full title: '''Cicero's Brutus''' or '''History of Famous Orators''' or '''The History of Eloquence''') is a history of [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[oratory]]. It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which [[Brutus]] and [[Atticus]] ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time. It was composed in 46 B.C. |
[[Cicero]]'s '''Brutus''' (full title: '''Cicero's Brutus''' or '''History of Famous Orators''' or '''The History of Eloquence''') is a history of [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[oratory]]. It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which [[Marcus_Junius_Brutus_the_Younger|Brutus]] and [[Titus_Pomponius_Atticus|Atticus]] ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time. It was composed in 46 B.C. |
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==Further reading== |
==Further reading== |
Revision as of 18:29, 22 July 2011
Cicero's Brutus (full title: Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators or The History of Eloquence) is a history of Roman oratory. It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which Brutus and Atticus ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time. It was composed in 46 B.C.
Further reading
- G. V. Sumner (1973) The Orators in Cicero's Brutus: Prosopography and Chronology
- Edward A. Robinson, The Date of Cicero's Brutus, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 60, (1951), pp. 137–146
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