Academy/Academic skepticism, 49, 58n33, 130n8, 131–40, 147n47, 195–97
acting, 130nn9–10
Aemilius Paulus, L., 92n106
Albucius, T. (praetor 105), 121–22, 125
Alexander the Great, 80n80
amicitia, 55, 59n36, 74, 81n84, 92, 105n19, 113n39, 152–86 passim, 200–204, 211
ancestors. See imagines; mos maiorum/tradition
Antony (M. Antonius), 19n20, 64, 152n10, 166n43, 201, 210, 215, 220
Aristotle, 10, 55, 72–73, 86, 126, 141–44, 147n49, 148, 156–59, 161–62, 168–69, 208n60
ars/artes, 25n32, 82–84, 129n3, 130, 140, 215n83
Atilius, M., 116–17
Atticus (T. Pomponius Atticus), 1, 48, 51, 54n24, 58, 60, 62–73 passim, 75, 79, 91, 93, 117n47, 153n13, 173–183 passim, 198–212
Amaltheum of, 68
closeness to Cicero of, 55, 91, 152n10
role in publication of Cicero’s works of, 5, 154
auctoritas, 131, 183–85, 198, 211, 217. See also mos maiorum/tradition; Cicero, Marcus (M. Tullius Cicero): as expert
Augustus, 112n38, 193n15. See also Octavian
Aurelius, Marcus 223
Balbus (L. Cornelius Balbus), 35n67, 48–49
Bona Dea affair, 48
boni/bonus/bonum, 54–55, 60, 101, 217–20
Brutus (M. Junius Brutus), 18, 19n20, 21n22, 54n22, 62, 64–65, 66n53, 75, 85, 108, 110n32, 117n47, 126, 166n40, 204–11
Caecilius, 116
Caelius (M. Caelius Rufus), 81, 166n40, 206n52
Caesar (C. Julius Caesar): assassination of, 19, 64, 187–204 passim, 210
before civil war, 9, 156n23, during civil war, 50n12, 52, 54n24, 55n25, 56–57, 59, 61, 131
sole rule and dictatorship of, 1–2, 9, 53, 61, 63, 76–78, 80–82, 84–85, 100, 103, 207, 209, 218, 220
Calliope, 48–50
Catiline, conspiracy of, 48, 57, 74, 102
Cato the Elder (M. Porcius Cato Censorius), 22n26, 24nn29–30, 183–86, 198, 213, 220–21
Cato the Younger (M. Porcius Cato Uticensis), 16n7, 17n11, 48, 51n14, 73–75, 131–39, 209
Cicero, Marcus (M. Tullius Cicero): ambivalent about philosophy 19–21, 42, 77–78, 83, 107, 195
as exemplum to himself, 50
as expert, 108, 110, 127–28, 146–48, 158–63, 167n44, 168, 172, 187–88, 197, 213–16
grief for Tullia, 8, 44, 88, 86–95 passim
hopes for triumph, 59, 73, 153n15
as a new man, 59n36, 144n41, 189
philosophical affiliations, 131–36 passim, 195–98, 212n72, 218
question of originality, 119–21, 212n75
Cicero, Marcus the Younger (M. Tullius Cicero filius), 63, 66, 143, 205, 212–17 passim, 222
Cicero, Quintus (Q. Tullius Cicero), 62–64, 204–5, 210
Cicero, Quintus the Younger (Q. Tullius Cicero filius), 62–67
Cinna (L. Cornelius Cinna), 60
civil war, 78, 102, 192. See also Caesar (C. Julius Caesar): during civil war; Pompey (Cn. Pompeius Magnus)
clementia, 59n36
Clodius (P. Clodius Pulcher), 48, 68, 193n14
consensus omnium bonorum, 55n24, 102
consolatio/consolation, 35n69, 44–45, 72n68, 78, 86–95 passim, 180. See also metaphors: medical
Cratippus, 213–16
declamation/declamatio, 58, 146–48
dedication/dedicatee, 18, 66, 75, 94, 196, 199–204, 204–12 passim, 212–13, 222
reader as substitute dedicatee, 112, 151–52, 166–186 passim, 197–98, 217
deliberation, 46–62 passim
Demetrius of Phaleron, 143–44, 216
Demosthenes, 143
Derrida, J., 7
dialogue, 58, 145–48, 187, 197–98, 200
choice of speakers, 110n32, 155, 183–85, 198, 200, 207–9, 220
Dicaearchus, 71
dignitas, 13, 40, 42, 59n36, 100, 118n48, 190
disputatio: in utramque partem, 50, 58–59, 195–98
contra propositum, 145–49, 195–98
Ennius, 15–21 passim, 42, 116, 120n52, 173–79, 184–86
Epicureanism/Epicureans, 17nn10–11, 54n22, 62, 71n65, 110, 115n43, 120, 122n62
exemplum/exempla, 2–3, 33, 50–54, 59–60, 75, 77, 119n51, 121n57, 122n62, 220–22
Flamininus (T. Quinctius Flamininus), 173–78
Genette, G., 4–5, 150n, 151nn2 and 4, 171n45
gloria/glory, 24–29, 40, 42, 50, 99–101, 142
Greek culture, Roman interactions with, 2–3, 103–8, 114, 121–22, 140–41
Greek experts, 39–42, 106, 141–44, 161–63, 213–16
Greek language, 57–58, 69–70, 117–18, 120–21, 161–63, 223
reading in, 116–19, 124–27, 162. See also translation
Hector, 51
Hegel, 7
Hirtius, A., 35n67, 196–98, 210–11
historiography, 22n26, 26–29, 35, 93, 128
imagines: in aristocratic houses, 28–29, in Atticus’ eponymous work, 69
Isocrates, 141–44
jurisprudence, 90, 129, 165–66, 170
Latin language, 58, 69–70, 102, 105, 117–18, 189, 214
laudatio funebris, 26
litterae commendaticae, 66
Lucceius, L., 88n96, 91–93, 160n32
Lucretius, 17n10, 99n9, 105n21, 110n32
Lurco (M. Aufidius Lurco), 68
Marius, C., 203
Matius, C., 200–201
Memmius, C., 124n65
memoria/memory, 26–29, 34–35, 41n86, 42, 128
Mescinius Rufus, L., 54, 72n68
metaphors: of adoption, 187–88, 192–94
business/financial, 165, 168, 172–73
military, 106
Metellus Celer, Q., 59n36
mos maiorum/tradition: 2–3, 26, 28–29, 33, 52–53, 57, 59–60, 104–8, 121, 134n23, 135, 150, 155, 174, 184–85, 220–22
Mucius Scaevola Augur, Q., 121, 201
Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, Q., 60
munus, 153, 167, 177–78, 182, 220–22
Neoptolemus, 15–21
Octavian, 215. See also Augustus
oratory, 25, 197. See also philosophy: and oratory
otium/negotium, 14–15, 19, 21, 49–50, 68, 71–73, 78
and philosophy, 29–30, 78, 136, 138, 205
place of writing in, 14–15, 34–38, 40–42, 78–86 passim, 220–22
as retirement, 30–35, 37, 218, 220–22
Papirius Paetus, L., 1, 53, 61–62
philosophica: compositional process, 1, 212–13
as didactic, 46–47, 62–67, 75, 187–90, 197, 199, 204–12 passim, 212–17 passim
objections to, 3, 13–22 passim, 113–27 passim, 137–40, 217–18
as return to an earlier occupation, 34, 131, 137–49 passim, 218
as Romanized Greek knowledge, 2–4, 53, 77, 98–99, 106, 117–19, 185, 203, 220
as unified project, 1, 5–10, 96–127 passim, 155, 187–212 passim. See also dialogue
philosophy: as basis for action, 46–67 passim
as contribution to the state, 1–3,21–22, 46–47, 100–101, 106–8, 110, 189, 218
and oratory, 128–49 passim, 191–92, 194
and public service, 9–10, 15–22 passim, 67–78 passim, 132, 134–36, 190–94, 204–12 passim, 217–19
Roman reactions to, 3, 15–17, 222–23
as substitution for/alternative to politics, 9–10, 16, 67–78 passim, 84–86, 92–93, 95, 131–32, 149, 187–95
pithanon, 134
Plato, 10, 54, 86, 121n57, 130, 143
Polybius, 26
Polydamas, 51
Pompey (Cn. Pompeius Magnus), 9, 48–49, 50n12, 52, 55n25, 56–61, 63, 68, 72–73, 81–82
Pomponia, 63
prefaces, 4–8
avoidance of technical philosophical content in, 7–8, 110
dedicated, 151–52
definition of, 7
dynamic relationship with the reader in, 150–86 passim
epistolary form of, 151, 153n12
used to prepare reader for the work, 7, 148–49
volume of, 5–7
probabilis/probare, 132–34, 136n27, 185
rhetoric, 36–41 passim. See also philosophy: and rhetoric
Sallust, 14, 22–35 passim, 37, 41–43, 79, 128, 138n32, 218n92, 221n103, 222n105
schola, 145
Seneca the Younger, 33n64, 151n4, 221, 223n107
Shackleton Bailey, D. R., 62, 66, 69
skepticism. See Academy/Academic skepticism
Socrates/Socratic, 17n13, 24n29, 48–49, 51, 145n44, 146–48, 179n58
Sophocles, 116
Stoicism/Stoics, 17n11, 131–36, 212n72
studium/studia, 37, 67, 69–72, 74, 84, 105, 123, 219
style, 110–12, 129–31, 135, 143, 145, 149, 162, 206
Sulla (L. Cornelius Sulla), 203
Sulla, Faustus (Faustus Cornelius Sulla), 72
Sulpicius Rufus, P. (tribune 88), 202–3
Sulpicius Rufus, Ser. (cos. 51), 51–53, 72n68, 85n89, 88n96, 89–90
Terence, 116
textual exchange, 111–22, 154–55, 166–67
Theopompus, 80n80
Thrasybulus, 60
Thyillus, 69
Tithonus, 183–85
Torquatus (A. Manlius Torquatus, praetor 52), 90
tradition: literary, 18–21, 97, 116–17, 120–22, 155, 173–86 passim
philosophical, 10, 141–44, 148, 179, 199. See also mos maiorum/tradition
tragedy, 115–16
translation, 96–127 passim
domesticating, 97–98, 110n34, 111n36, 116–17, 125–27
foreignizing 97–98, 108n28, 110n34, 111n36
Trebatius Testa, C., 37, 126, 156–73 passim, 177, 179, 180, 182, 205, 211, 214
Valerius Flaccus, L. (cos. 100), 60
Varro (M. Terentius Varro), 33n65, 38–39, 69n60, 76, 80–86, 90, 108, 110n32, 113n39, 117n47, 126, 151n5, 153n14, 157n27, 159n29, 166n40, 205, 207–9
virtus/virtue, 28–30, 54, 61–62, 215n83
voluntas, 156–58, 164, 167–68, 171–73, 182, 196
Zethus, 17