Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Cicero

William H. F. Altman: Introduction

Part 1: Imitation or Criticism?
1 Martin McLaughlin: Petrarch and Cicero. Adulation and Critical Distance
2 Kathy Eden: Cicero’s Portion of Montaigne’s Acclaim
3 Gábor Kendeffy: Lactantius as Christian Cicero, Cicero as Shadow-like Instructor

Part 2: The Politics of Reception
4 Robert G. Ingram: Conyers Middleton’s Cicero. Enlightenment, Scholarship, and Polemic
5 Carl J. Richard: Cicero and the American Founders
6 Alex Dressler: Cicero’s Quarrels. Reception and Modernity from Horace to Tacitus

Part 3: Two French Receptions
7 Paul Allen Miller: Cicero Reads Derrida Reading Cicero. A Politics and a Friendship to Come
8 Carlos Lévy: Ancient Texts, Contemporary Stakes. J. Carcopino as Reader of Cicero’s Letters

Part 4: German Reception and Its Influence
9 William H. F. Altman: Cicero and the Fourth Triumvirate. Gruen, Syme, and Strasburger
10 Elisabeth Begemann: Damaged Go(o)ds. Cicero’s Theological Triad in the Wake of German Historicism

Part 5: Cicero Divided
11 Caroline Bishop: Roman Plato or Roman Demosthenes? The Bifurcation of Cicero in Ancient Scholarship
12 John O. Ward: What the Middle Ages Missed of Cicero, and Why

Part 6: Cicero Restored
13 Matthew Sharpe: Cicero, Voltaire, and the Philosophes in the French Enlightenment
14 JoAnn DellaNeva: Following Their Own Genius. Debates on Ciceronianism in 16th-Century Italy