Cicero und Caesar. Ein Dialog der Dichter
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Katarzyna Marciniak
Abstract
The paper presents a brief survey of the literary dialogue between Cicero and Caesar carried out by means of poetry. Both Cicero and Caesar wrote verses at nearly all the stages of their private life and political carreer. However, this poetry did not have a positive reputation, already in the Antiquity: Cicero was alleged to be a famous graphomaniac and Caesar was considered to have more luck as a poet only because his verses were less known than those of Cicero. As the fragmentary state of the sources makes it impossible to analyse all the relevant poems, the paper concentrates on Cicero′s epics on Caesar′s military campaign in Britain De expeditione Britannica, Cicero′s and Caesar′s epigrams on the literary activity of Terence preserved by Sueton, and on Cicero′s translation of two verses from Euripides′ tragedy Phoenissae. The analysis is focused not on the literary quality of the verses but on their importance for the contacts between Cicero and Caesar. As a result of the survey may be stated, that the polemics and attempts of a conciliation between the two most important politicians of the end of the Republic took place also in the field of poetry.
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