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Quel est le rote du philosophe dans la cité ? Comment celui que l'on appellerait aujourd'hui l'intellectuel remplit-il au mieux ses devoirs d'homme et de citoyen ? Cette question est centrale dans l'Antiquité. Présent dès Platon et prégnant dans les philosophies hellénistiques, le débat sur les genres de vie prend une tournure singulière à Rome. L'ouvre de Sénèque s'avère particulièrement novatrice sur cette question. Dans une approche mêlant des enjeux philosophiques et culturels mais aussi linguistiques et littéraires, le philosophe romain renouvelle à la fois le débat philosophique et la notion romaine d'otium.

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What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a telling window into the day-to-day lives of the city's inhabitants. This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures--reclining, sitting, and standing--in the period 200 B.C.-200 A.D. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the postures and with the diners who assumed them. Roller shows that dining posture was entangled with a variety of pressing social issues, such as gender roles and relations, sexual values, rites of passage, and distinctions among the slave, freed, and freeborn conditions. Timely in light of the recent upsurge of interest in Roman dining, this book is equally concerned with the history of the body and of bodily practices in social contexts. Roller gathers evidence for these practices and their associated values not only from elite literary texts, but also from subelite visual representations--specifically, funerary monuments from the city of Rome and wall paintings of dining scenes from Pompeii. Engagingly written, Dining Posture in Ancient Rome will appeal not only to the classics scholar, but also to anyone interested in how life was lived in the Eternal City.

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In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero's decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up this question and makes the case that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. Baraz examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces--a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project. He presents his philosophy as intimately connected to the new political circumstances and his exclusion from politics. His goal--to benefit the state by providing new moral resources for the Roman elite--was traditional, even if his method of translating Greek philosophical knowledge into Latin and combining Greek sources with Roman heritage was unorthodox. A Written Republic provides a new perspective on Cicero's conception of his philosophical project while also adding to the broader picture of late-Roman political, intellectual, and cultural life.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- Cicero, Marcus Tullius --- Political and social views. --- Rome --- Politics and government --- Philosophie ancienne --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Cicero --- Cicerone, M. T. --- Cicéron, Marcus --- Philosophy, Ancient --- M. Tulli Ciceronis --- T︠S︡it︠s︡eron, Mark Tulliĭ --- Cyceron --- Cicéron --- Kikerōn --- Cicerón, M. Tulio --- Ḳiḳero --- Cicerone --- Cicerón, Marco Tulio --- Ḳiḳero, Marḳus Ṭulyus --- Tullius Cicero, Marcus --- Kikerōn, M. T. --- Cicerone, M. Tullio --- Cicero, M. T. --- Cyceron, Marek Tulliusz --- ציצרון, מארקוס טולליוס --- קיקרו, מארקוס טוליוס --- קיקרו, מרקוס טוליוס --- キケロ --- 西塞罗 --- Academic Skepticism. --- Bellum Catilinae. --- Bellum Iugurthinum. --- Cato the Younger. --- Cicero. --- De Divinatione. --- De Finibus. --- De Natura Deorum. --- De Officiis. --- De Senectute. --- Ennius. --- Julius Caesar. --- Marcus the Younger. --- Paradoxa Stoicorum. --- Quintus Cicero. --- Rhetorica ad Herennium. --- Roman elite. --- Sallust. --- Topica. --- Tullia. --- Tusculan Disputations. --- action. --- amicitia. --- character. --- civil war. --- cultural life. --- dedicatees. --- dictatorship. --- intellectual activity. --- intellectual life. --- late Roman republic. --- letters. --- mos maiorum. --- negotium. --- oratory. --- otium. --- patriotism. --- philosophical writings. --- philosophy. --- political life. --- politics. --- prefaces. --- public life. --- readers. --- rhetoric. --- translation. --- treatises. --- volumen prohoemiorum.