21 articles in this issue
Ermanno Malaspina
Index of the issue
Tommaso Ricchieri
The international conference Cicero and the Environment took place on 23 and 24 January 2023 in the splendid and majestic setting of the Aula Magna of the University Library of Bologna.
Gesine Manuwald
This paper analyses the function of references to natural and supernatural elements in Cicero’s political writings by exploring a selection of case studies. The survey shows that there is usually not an intention to describe details and that these referen... see more
Giuseppe La Bua
Far removed from the modern idea of ecology, Cicero’s defence of natural habitat constitutes a powerful weapon of political struggle and invective in his forensic orations. The violation of nature, the destruction of which poses a threat to the stability ... see more
Francesca Benvenuti
The article investigates the presence and role of environment and ecology in Cicero’s post reditum speeches. In this corpus, the description of the external world, as well as of the ways humans interact with it, is coherent and homogenous and is character... see more
Henriette van der Blom
Cicero used and represented trees for a variety of purposes, but this article focuses on Cicero’s attitudes to political usage of trees within a wider context of “botanising rulers”, triumphing trees, Roman euergetism and spectacle, and sacred trees. Star... see more
Barbara Del Giovane
The article explores representations of Campania’s environment in Cicero’s Letters. Campania is not evoked in landscape descriptions in the traditional sense but is configured first and foremost as a geographic alter-ego of Rome (a pusilla Roma, as Cicero... see more
Georgia Tsouni
The prologues to the first and second books of Cicero’s De legibus uniquely represent a rural environment as the setting of the discussion. While Cicero has a Platonic model in mind, I discuss how his depiction of the rural environment in the De legibus g... see more
Elizabeth McKnight
The present paper argues that, in both De re publica and De legibus, Cicero employs descriptions and images of the natural world to support and supplement the philosophical arguments of the two treatises. These descriptions and images variously provide vi... see more
Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini
The article studies the exaltation of the manifold variety of terrestrial landscapes by the Stoic Balbus in the second book of De natura deorum (98-99). Cicero delivers a highly elaborate and formal description of the insatiabilis varietas of nature, in w... see more
Elisa Dal Chiele
This contribution studies poetic citations in Cicero’s philosophical corpus, specifically those in which elements related to the natural environment appear. The analysis focuses on environmental aspects present in select quotations related to the theme of... see more
Andres Matlock
Although starting from a common metaphor of vegetal descent (caducus), Lucretius and Cicero offer distinct perspectives on ecological change – that is, how species, particularly plants and humans, develop and relate to each other over time. Especially in ... see more
Adalberto Magnavacca
The corpus of Cicero's works, in its variety and vastness, lends itself to further research, but we are confident that the series of contributions presented at the Bologna conference and collected in this volume of the journal can trace some lines and fit... see more
Giancarlo Reggi
Cicero, Opera omnia, Ed. Andreas Cratander, Basel 1528, Reproduction of the copy of the University Library in Basel. With an introductory essay by / Reproduktion des Exemplars der Basler Universitätsbibliothek. Mit einer Einführung von Cédric Scheidegger ... see more
Francesca Boldrer
Marco Tullio Cicerone, La vecchiaia, a cura di Stefano Costa, testo latino a fronte, La Vita Felice, Milano 2023, 135 pp., ISBN 978-88-9346-697-4.
Jula Wildberger
Lex Paulson, Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (et al.) 2023.
Enrico Piergiacomi
Guido Milanese (a cura di), L’Epicuro di Bignone cent’anni dopo, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2023, 141 pp., ISBN 978-88-343-5147-5.
Katarzina Marciniak
Angelika Fricke, Manuel Reith (hrsg.), unter Mitwirkung von Gregor Vogt-Spira, Latein und Griechisch im 21. Jahrhundert, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2021, 286 pp., ISBN 978-3-534-27474-1.
Alice Borgna, Tutte storie di maschi bianchi morti…, «Fact Checking: la Storia alla prova dei fatti», Laterza, Bari-Roma 2022, 166 pp., ISBN 978-88-581-4839-6
Stefano Rozzi
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