Pliny’s M. Tulli
from the divine orator to the homoerotic poet
Keywords:
Pliny, the Younger, Marcus Tullius Cicero, comedy, homoerotism, epistolary collectionAbstract
Marcus Tullius Cicero is one of Rome’s most prominent historical figures and the leading Rhetoric reference in the Latin-speaking scene. Nevertheless, studies on Cicero are regularly anachronistic, and the representation of Cicero, literary or historical, reflects the tendency of a particular school or specific historical period. In that fashion, this article’s objective is to establish who was the great orator and symbol of the Roman Republic to another great man of Rome, Pliny the Younger, who lived more than a century after Cicero’s death in another regime and a world much broader and more complex literature. Nevertheless, we will focus on the different faces of Cicero in Pliny, analysing how such a figure was already much more abstruse in Antiquity than is traditionally conceived.
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