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题名/责任者:

How to grieve : an ancient guide to the lost art of consolation / inspired by Marcus Tullius Cicero ; translated and introduced by Michael Fontaine.

出版发行项:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]

ISBN:

9780691220321

载体形态项:

xxiv, 240 pages ; 18 cm.

其他载体形态:

Online version: How to grieve Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022 9780691220338

丛编说明:

Ancient wisdom for modern readers

附加个人名称:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, attributed name.

附加个人名称:

Fontaine, Michael, translator.

个人名称主题:

Tullia,-active 1st century B.C.

个人名称主题:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

统一题名主题:

Consolatio.

论题主题:

Consolation.

论题主题:

Grief.

论题主题:

Bereavement.

中图法分类号:

B502.42

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references.

摘要附注:

"At the age of 33, Tullia Ciceronis died from complications due to childbirth. Her father, the consul Marcus Tullius Cicero, was utterly distraught, as his contemporary letters and passages in the Tusculan Disputations make clear. And in an effort to grieve, Cicero did something new in world history: for the first time, he wrote a consolation speech-not for others, as had always been done, but for himself. This was his coping strategy, and it prefigures the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and so many other thinkers throughout history who write letters to themselves. Cicero's Consolation was lost in antiquity. In the Renaissance, a philologist named Charles (Carlo) Sigoni recreated the speech. He gathered all the extant quotations and, on the analogy of restoring missing pieces of sculpture or lost paintings, he drew on everything he could find in Cicero to write a new speech that effectively recreated the lost one. And for a while, it worked. For centuries many great scholars believed Sigoni really had discovered the speech, rather than recreated it. Alas, subsequent scholarship has proven the opposite. Signoni very probably did write it. But the authorship question is less important than the contents. The speech shows that Sigoni knew all the conventions of the Consolation genre, and the historical events of Tullia's life, at least as well as any scholar then or now. It is a masterpiece: a fascinating read in Classical Latin, and it deserves a wide audience"--

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