The Dream of Rome: Cicero, Macrobius, Vives
(2016) Invited Lecturer — Location: Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- This talk shows how the long tradition of the Somnium (Dream narrative) in Latin, in particular as it was instantiated by Cicero's Somnium Scipionis at the end of his Republic, was simultaneously a source of allegories of order and power, and a source of political and literary instability. Following an introduction to Cicero's dream, as well as to the more chaotic elements of Macrobius' commentary on that dream, it turns to a case-study of Juan Luis Vives' own dream-based commentary on the Dream of Scipio. It shows how Vives' assimilation of himself to Cicero, i.e. through 'in persona' paraphrase, Vives dreams himself into antiquity, while also reflecting on the impossibility of such historical retrojection.
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University of Miami University of Miami
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Kachuck, A. (2016). The Dream of Rome: Cicero, Macrobius, Vives. Invited Lecturer, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/100994