Cicerone a Farsàlo - Cicero at Pharsalus

There is little doubt that Cicero’s suasoria in book 7 of Lucan’s Bellum Civile, performed to encourage Pompey to attack, is a fiction. Historical sources tell us that Cicero was not in Thessaly on the eve of the battle for health reasons; these sources also indicate a certain ambivalence felt by C...

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Main Author: Paolo Esposito
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2018-06-01
Series:Ciceroniana On Line
Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/2823