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Cicero's ideal city
Cicero never describes an ideal city, although he provides plenty of indications about the importance of cities in his writings. In the Dream of Scipio, Cicero positions the city in the unfamiliar vastness of space. In the Tusculans , Cicero locates the city in time by reflecting on what it would mean for a city that once existed to become nothing. I develop Cicero's ideal city as a response to these issues of space and time and in contrast to Plato's Republic . My focus is on how three tangible aspects of the ideal city – the parceling of property, the public forum, and artifacts – locate humans in space and time by transforming people from dispersed to settled, unruled to ordered, and fleeting to lasting.
Cicero's ideal city
Cicero never describes an ideal city, although he provides plenty of indications about the importance of cities in his writings. In the Dream of Scipio, Cicero positions the city in the unfamiliar vastness of space. In the Tusculans , Cicero locates the city in time by reflecting on what it would mean for a city that once existed to become nothing. I develop Cicero's ideal city as a response to these issues of space and time and in contrast to Plato's Republic . My focus is on how three tangible aspects of the ideal city – the parceling of property, the public forum, and artifacts – locate humans in space and time by transforming people from dispersed to settled, unruled to ordered, and fleeting to lasting.
Cicero's ideal city
Flohr, Miko (editor) / Zuiderhoek, Arjan (editor) / Hammer, Dean (author)
2024-08-20
11 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Roman Republic , Cicero , city , res publica , property , forum , immortality , humanitas , oratory , Plato
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