Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Marcum Brutum

François Prost (Université de Paris IV Sorbonne)

Ed. by Sophia Papaioannou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.2: Ancient Roman Writing and Culture (Republic and Empire), -750-476.
Vol. editors: William John Dominik (University of Otago), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Thomas Habinek (University of Southern California), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Jula Wildberger (The American University of Paris)

Dates

First circulation or publication Apr 2043 - Jul 2043

Places

Ancient Rome (Republic & Empire) (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
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Resources

The addressee

On Marcus Iunius Brutus (85? – 42 BC), leader on the conspiracy against Caesar in 44, see the biographical sketch by Badian 2003, and the exhaustive overview by Gelzer 1918; on the historical figure and its posterity see Clarke 1981; on Cicero and Brutus still useful is Boissier 1888: 321-379; other references listed in Garbarino 2003: 91.

The corpus

According to the 4^th-century AD grammarian Nonius, the collection (hereafter referred to as MBrut) originally numbered at least 9 books; the 15 surviving fragments (12 from unidentified books) are edited by Watt 1958: 163-166. The manuscript tradition is the same as that of the Ad Quintum Fratrem collection for the …

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Citation: Prost, François. "Epistulae ad Marcum Brutum". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 July 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34667, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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