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This work covers the history of the text of the invectives of Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust. Both invectives were in all probability a product of the rhetorical schools of Rome. The book includes: the full manuscript tradition of the text, the history of changes during its transmission, the history of the printed text and, finally, the text itself with an apparatus criticus and also a translation. This work should be of interest to classicists, philologists interested in the history of medieval and renaissance texts, and also to those erudite readers concerned with rhetorical style and the functioning of the rhetorical schools of Rome.
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This work covers the history of the text of the invectives of Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust. Though these speeches seem unsophisticated to some, they are in fact of considerable importance. The question of the authenticity of both invectives, especially of the invective against Cicero, considered in the book diachronically, has long troubled scholars, commencing with Quintilian's quotation from the text as though it were authentic. This dispute continues down to our own time. In all probability, both invectives are a product of the rhetorical schools of Rome, as students at such schools might have been set the task of writing a speech against Cicero imitating Sallust, or of responding to Sallust in the style of Cicero. Thus, we possess a sample of rhetorical school exercises, preserved due to their similarities to the prototypes on which they were modelled. The work covers: the full manuscript tradition of the text and also the history of the changes which arose during its transmission, the history of the printed text and the text itself with an apparatus criticus and also a translation. This work should be of interest to classicists, philologists interested in the history of medieval and renaissance texts, and also to those erudite readers concerned with rhetorical style and the functioning of the rhetorical schools of Rome.
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"Sozomena" bedeutet auf Griechisch "Gerettetes". Die Reihe widmet sich der Erschlie ung von Texten, die aus der griechischen und r mischen Antike nur durch ausserordentliche Fund-Umst nde erhalten geblieben sind - allen voran durch Papyri, von denen Tausende in Universit ten und Bibliotheken unentziffert vorhanden sind.
Die Reihe soll haupts chlich Texte edieren und interpretieren, aber auch die Methoden der Erschlie ung diskutieren. Verschiedene Buchtypen werden daher hier ver ffentlicht: Texteditionen, Kommentare, Monographien und Sammelb nde. Die Hauptsprache der Publikationen ist Englisch, daneben auch Deutsch und Italienisch.
Herausgegeben werden die Sozomena von Alessandro Barchiesi (Harvard, MA), Robert Fowler (Bristol), Dirk Obbink (Oxford und Ann Arbor, MI) und Nigel Wilson (Oxford) im Namen der Herculaneum Society, die zur F rderung der Erschlie ung des wichtigsten Fundkomplexes antiker Papyri gegr ndet wurde: der Villa dei Papiri im Pompeji benachbarten antiken Herculaneum mit ihren zum Teil noch nicht ausgegrabenen Sch tzen an Textrollen.