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The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
by Katharina Volk.
Princeton, 400 pp., £28, January,978 0 691 19387 8 Show More
by Katharina Volk.
Princeton, 400 pp., £28, January,
“... response to one another.Unlike its later counterpart, the ‘Roman republic of letters’ – in Katharina Volk’s phrase – wasn’t removed from political and institutional contexts. What Cicero (adapting a line from Homer) calls ‘works of the word’ were bound up with the work of state. But pinning down the ways in which the two were connected ... ”
