This dissertation argues that in two different genres, oratory and political philosophy, Cicero presents to the Roman elite a variety of possible motives for pursuing a political career, and advances his vision of legitimate political engagement. It challenges recent interpretations, first, by demonstrating how Ciceronian forensic rhetoric transcends judicial goals in pursuit of broader cultural and political aims (Chapter 1); second, by demonstrating that Cicero’s political philosophy advances a new form of elite engagement, informed by Greek ethical philosophy and contemplative pursuits (Chapters 2-4); and, third, by demonstrating that Cicero viewed philosophy as essential for rhetoric, not due to its instrumental value but as an ethical grounding for both personal behavior and public oratory (Chapter 4). The first chapter argues that in the Pro Sestio, Cicero uses the prospect of civic glory to motivate his listeners to defend the republic. The second chapter, in contrast, shows how Cicero’s first dialogue on political philosophy, the De Re Publica, downplays the motive of civic glory in favor of less mercenary motives drawn from Greek ethical philosophy, especially the attraction of virtue as its own reward. Cicero attempts to persuade his potentially resistant Roman audience, however, by adopting an initial pose of hostility towards philosophy and by putting philosophical ideas in the mouths of his Roman dialogical personae. The third chapter, on the Somnium Scipionis, argues that Cicero concludes the De Re Publica by employing the authority of Scipio to inspire his audience to study cosmology in order to acquire knowledge of the motives, ends, and means of political engagement; Scipio qualifies Laelius’s earlier argument about virtue, reevaluating it as a means to an eternal reward based on Platonic eschatology. The fourth chapter shows that in De Legibus 1, the character Marcus Cicero mounts two arguments for natural law in two different styles, one aimed at Atticus the intellectual and the other at Quintus the politician, suggesting two chief segments of his potential reading audience. Marcus concludes with an inspiring speech intended to show Atticus that philosophy demands engagement in politics and to convince Quintus that philosophic knowledge gives public oratory ethical grounding.

Nicolas Petit (c. 1497-1532), originaire de Normandie, étudia et enseigna au collège de Montaigu à Paris (c. 1510-c. 1522). Ce collège avait mauvaise réputation auprès des humanistes qui le disaient hostile au Bonae Literae, mais la modernité de sa poésie (Elegiae de redemptione humana, Paris, Jean Petit, 1517, en collaboration avec Jean Des Fossés ;Sylvae. Arion, Gornais, Barbaromachia cum aliquot hymnis, Paris, Jean de Gourmont, 1522)contredit ces représentations traditionnelles. Petit partit ensuite à Poitiers étudier le droit ; il yfréquenta les cercles littéraires et devint ami du poète rhétoriqueur Jean Bouchet et du jeune François Rabelais.Cette thèse consiste d’une part en l’édition, l’annotation, la traduction des Sylvae et des Elegiae de redemptione humana (1er volume). Un second volume contient une étude du contexte intellectuel du collège de Montaigu qui s’appuie sur la lecture des oeuvres produites dans et autour de ce collège ; j’entame ensuite une étude littéraire des Sylvae (imitation deStace, influence d’Ange Politien, nature pré-rabelaisienne des textes de Petit) ; je termine en analysant l’influence de la poésie de Petit sur les oeuvres de J. Bouchet et F. Rabelais. Dans chacune de ces parties, j’appuie ma réflexion sur un panorama général de la littérature néo-latine du temps, pour mieux situer Petit dans son contexte intellectuel et littéraire. / Nicolas Petit (c. 1497-1532), from Normandy, studied and taught in the college of Montaiguin Paris (c. 1510-C. 1522). This college had bad reputation among the Humanists who said itwas hostile to Bonae Literae, but the modernity of Petit’s poetry (Elegiae de redemptionehumana, Paris, Jean Petit, 1517, in collaboration with Jean Des Fossés ; Sylvae. Arion,Gornais, Barbaromachia cum aliquot hymnis, Paris, Jean de Gourmont, 1522) contradictsthose traditional representations. Afterwards, Petit went to Poitiers (c. 1522-1532) to studylaw ; there, he frequented the literary circles and became friend with the Rhetoriqueur poetJean Bouchet and the young François Rabelais.This Ph. D. consists in the edition, annotation and traduction of the Sylvae and of the Elegiaede redemptione humana (1st volume). A second volume contains a study of the intellectualbackground of the college of Montaigu which bases on a reading of the texts written in andaround this college ; then I begin a literary study of the Sylvae (imitation of Stace, influenceof Angelo Poliziano, pre-rabelaisian nature of Petit’s texts) ; in the last part, I analyze theinfluence of Petit’s poetry on Jean Bouchet’s works and also on Rabelais’s ones. In each partof my study, I base my reflection on a general overview of neo-latine literature of the time, inorder to insert Petit in his intellectual and literary background.

Esta pesquisa consiste na tradução do Canto VI do poema didático-filosófico De rerum natura, do poeta latino Lucrécio (séc. I a.C.) e na análise de três fragmentos do canto, segundo o conceito de função poética de Roman Jakobson, o mais importante linguista do Formalismo Russo. Esta epopeia romana trata da natureza, composta toda de átomos e de vazio, segundo a doutrina do filósofo grego Epicuro (séc. III a. C.). A filosofia epicurista da natureza, sua física, tinha uma particularidade especial, o atomismo, conceito materialista que tem no De rerum natura a sua maior e melhor fonte. Assim, foi feito um apanhado sobre a vida e obra do poeta, de acordo com historiadores da literatura latina e com alguns especialistas sobre o poeta. Em seguida, elencamos os pontos importantes da trajetória científica de Jakobson e suas pesquisas intimamente relacionadas com o conceito de função poética: a fonologia, as pesquisas sobre afasia infantil (donde deriva sua revisão da metáfora e da metonímia) e sobre as funções da linguagem. Com isso, temos o conceito de função poética, seus tópicos mais importantes e exemplos de estudos de Jakobson sobre poemas de Dante, Edgar Allan Poe e Charles Baudelaire. Finalmente, são analisados fragmentos dos tópicos De tonitru (O trovão) e De fulgure (O relâmpago), seguidos da tradução em versos do Canto VI. / This research consists in the translation of Book VI of the philosophical didactic poem De rerum natura, by the Latin poet Lucretius (I century BC), and the analysis of three fragments from it, according to the concept of poetic function of Roman Jakobson, the most important linguist of Russian Formalism. This Roman epic deals with nature, all composed of atoms and empty, according to the doctrine of the Greek philosopher Epicurus (III century C). The Epicurean philosophy of nature, its physics, had a especial particularity. Atomism, a materialistic theorie that had in De rerum natura its biggest and best source. Thus, the dissertation offers a survey of the life and work of the poet according mainly to historians of Latin literature and experts of this poet. Then, we list the important points of Jakobsons scientific trajectory and the aspects of research wich are closely related to the concept of poetic function: phonology, his research on childrens aphasia and on language functions. We deal with the concept of poetic function, its most important topics and some examples of Jakobsons studies on poems by Dante, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire. Finally, we analyse fragments of the passages De tonitru (Thunder) and De fulgure (Lightning), followed by a poetic translation of Canto VI.

Esta pesquisa consiste na tradução do Canto VI do poema didático-filosófico De rerum natura, do poeta latino Lucrécio (séc. I a.C.) e na análise de três fragmentos do canto, segundo o conceito de função poética de Roman Jakobson, o mais importante linguista do Formalismo Russo. Esta epopeia romana trata da natureza, composta toda de átomos e de vazio, segundo a doutrina do filósofo grego Epicuro (séc. III a. C.). A filosofia epicurista da natureza, sua física, tinha uma particularidade especial, o atomismo, conceito materialista que tem no De rerum natura a sua maior e melhor fonte. Assim, foi feito um apanhado sobre a vida e obra do poeta, de acordo com historiadores da literatura latina e com alguns especialistas sobre o poeta. Em seguida, elencamos os pontos importantes da trajetória científica de Jakobson e suas pesquisas intimamente relacionadas com o conceito de função poética: a fonologia, as pesquisas sobre afasia infantil (donde deriva sua revisão da metáfora e da metonímia) e sobre as funções da linguagem. Com isso, temos o conceito de função poética, seus tópicos mais importantes e exemplos de estudos de Jakobson sobre poemas de Dante, Edgar Allan Poe e Charles Baudelaire. Finalmente, são analisados fragmentos dos tópicos De tonitru (O trovão) e De fulgure (O relâmpago), seguidos da tradução em versos do Canto VI. / This research consists in the translation of Book VI of the philosophical didactic poem De rerum natura, by the Latin poet Lucretius (I century BC), and the analysis of three fragments from it, according to the concept of poetic function of Roman Jakobson, the most important linguist of Russian Formalism. This Roman epic deals with nature, all composed of atoms and empty, according to the doctrine of the Greek philosopher Epicurus (III century C). The Epicurean philosophy of nature, its physics, had a especial particularity. Atomism, a materialistic theorie that had in De rerum natura its biggest and best source. Thus, the dissertation offers a survey of the life and work of the poet according mainly to historians of Latin literature and experts of this poet. Then, we list the important points of Jakobsons scientific trajectory and the aspects of research wich are closely related to the concept of poetic function: phonology, his research on childrens aphasia and on language functions. We deal with the concept of poetic function, its most important topics and some examples of Jakobsons studies on poems by Dante, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire. Finally, we analyse fragments of the passages De tonitru (Thunder) and De fulgure (Lightning), followed by a poetic translation of Canto VI.

Latin erotic poetry is an important genre recording surviving examples of male friendship. This report argues that a specific group of poems involving the poet and his powerful friend should be identified and studied separately as a sub-genre. Drawing examples largely from Horace, Catullus and Propertius, I argue that homosocial erotic poetry exploits the same repertoire of generic conventions as erotic poetry, but reshapes some of them for different functions. To articulate the erotic emphasis and the generic concern of this report, Eve Sedgwick’s notion of “homosocial desire” (1985) is introduced. The concept of homosociality is useful in revealing how male desire in our sub-genre has an erotic tinge and functions to foster the social bond of male friendship, but precludes the homoerotic possibility. Chapter One introduces the important terms and methodology chosen for this study, while Chapters Two to Four define and describe three distinctive features of the sub-genre. Chapter Two is devoted to showing that sermo amatorius, the “love speech” often featured in romantic relationships, can be assimilable to the structure of male homosocial relations. Chapters Three and Four examine how the sub-genre reshapes the recusatio and the topos of wealth to negotiate the tension of desire between the poets and their powerful friends. Ultimately, this report argues that male homosocial desire motivates the sub-generic conventions and thereby the seemingly disparate poems constitute a coherent sub-generic classification. / text

This thesis examines certain aspects of Scottish Latin, particularly in the period 1580-1637. The first chapter chronicles the endeavours of John Scot of Scotstarvet to compile an anthology of Scottish Latin poetry, based on the unpublished letters to Scot in the NLS. Both the letters and contemporary verse indicate that the project was under way twenty years before the Delitiae was printed and that John Leech was an important influence. Leech's letters to Scot highlight Scot's editorial reticence, confirmed by the alterations in Scotstarvet's own verse. The final product was more a reflection of the taste and ethos of the early 1620s, after which Scot apparently ceased to collect material. The second chapter documents the attempts to impose a national grammar upon the schools, akin to the Lily-Colet grammar in England. Attempts to provide a radical alternative to Despauter, firstly by a committee and later by Alexander Hume, were inhibited by the inherent conservatism of teaching establishments. The most successful of the new grammars, those by Wedderburn and the Dunbar Rudiments, remained as general introductions to Despauter. Evidence for the composition of Latin verse in schools and universities, both statutory and manuscript, is assessed in the third chapter. Active involvement in the practice by local authorities influenced the range and extent of verse being written after 1600. The poetry of David Wedderburn of Aberdeen, promoted by the town council, reflects that influence. The importance of teaching methods upon a poet's future development is most clearly seen in the verse of David Hume, discussed in the fourth chapter. Hume continually re-works and re-evaluates the themes of his adolescent verse, measuring them against the achievements of James VI, whose birth he had earlier celebrated. The thesis concludes with a check-list of Scots whose Latin verse was printed before 1640.

Thesis--Pennsylvania, 1969. / On cover: Horace, Ciceron, et la rhétorique du seizième siècle. Bibliography: p. xi-xix.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität zu Köln, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-262) and index.

Thesis--Pennsylvania, 1969. / On cover: Horace, Ciceron, et la rhétorique du seizième siècle. Bibliography: p. xi-xix.

Orientador: Isabella Tardin Cardoso / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T14:07:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rocha_CarolMartinsda_M.pdf: 1639829 bytes, checksum: 7991e0e6cb303ae428ac9305de04cbce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A peça Cásina (Casina), provável produção do fim da carreira do poeta romano Tito Mácio Plauto (III-II a.C.), carece de observação mais atenta no cenário mais recente dos estudos sobre o autor. É notável que essa comédia, ao que saibamos, não tenha recebido anteriormente tradução em nosso país, sobretudo porque um passar de olhos pelas intrigas e confusões da peça, já nos revela uma infinidade de aspectos da poesia plautina. Em muitos casos se trata de características sutis, muitas das quais têm passado despercebidas para a maioria dos críticos, que notaram sobretudo brincadeiras mais explícitas ali presentes, envolvendo inclusive travestimento e referências a partes pudicas. Como pretendemos ressaltar, outros recursos humorísticos e poéticos abundam em Cásina: desde o próprio nome dos personagens até passagens em que podemos notar teatro dentro do teatro (fenômeno tratado mais recentemente como ?metateatralidade?). A trama, mesmo que típica do drama plautino, constrói-se de tal maneira a destacar de modo especial personagens que em outras peças não recebem tanto realce: as mulheres. Seja no papel da típica matrona plautina (esposa ciumenta), seja num papel contrário (a esposa submissa), seja ainda, na inventividade da escrava, ou até mesmo, na figura de uma falsa mulher, os personagens femininos de Cásina chamam a atenção dos leitores modernos, e, provavelmente, também cativariam o público da época. Nossa tradução e análise da peça buscam, entre outros resultados, proporcionar a percepção de tais efeitos humorísticos e póeticos. Para tanto será necessário observar fatores distintos: possíveis interferências pós-plautinas (pressupostas a partir do prólogo); aspectos de teatro dentro do teatro presentes no texto; o tratamento cauteloso da linguagem plautina / Abstract: The play Casina (Casina), probably a production of the end of the Roman poet's career Titus Maccius Plautus (III-II b. C.), lacks a more exhaustive observation in the recent scenario of the studies about the author. It is noteworthy that, as far as I know, this comedy hadn't received any translation in our country, above all because a look over to the Casina's intrigues and confusions may reveal an infinity of instigating aspects of Plautine poetry. In many cases, subtle characteristics haven't received a proper treatment by the critics that have noted above all tricks more explicit there, involving cross-dressing and references to chaste parts. As I intend to highlight, other humorous and poetics resources also abound in Casina: since the speaking names of the characters until passages where one may note play-within-the-play (phenomenom treated more recently as ?metatheater?). The plot, although typical in the Plautine drama, is built in such a way that emphasizes specially characters that in other plays don't receive much attention: the women. As the typical Plautine matrona (the jealous wife) or in an opposite role (the submissive wife), or, in the inventivity of the female slave, or even in the image of a false woman, the feminine characters of Casina drawn attention of the modern readers and, probably, should have delighted the public of the Plautine epoch. The translation and analysis here proposed aim, among other results, to provide the perception of such humorous and poetics effects. In order to accomplish this task it will be necessary to observe different elements: possible post-Plautine interventions (noted from the prologue); aspects of play-within-the-play noticeable in the text; the cautious treatment of the Plautine language / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística