Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations and Translations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces 13
7. Chapter 2. On a More Personal Note 44
8. Chapter 3. The Gift of Philosophy : The Treatises as Translations 96
9. Chapter 4. With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space 128
10. Chapter 5. Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management 150
11. Chapter 6. Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction 187
12. Bibliography 225
13. Index Locorum 243
14. General Index 249