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Deligiannis, Ioannis. Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero: Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111292779

The volume celebrates the 2100 years since Cicero’s first trip to Greece in 79 BCE, which moulded him as an orator, philosopher and politician. It brings together an anthology of eight contributions, which provide new material and shed light on certain aspects of Cicero’s presence in Greece and the reception of Cicero in Late Roman, Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, Early Modern, and Modern Greece up to date. It also approaches aspects of the way in which the Greek world, language and philosophy appear in Cicero’s works. The volume aims at complementing the international literature on the interaction between Cicero and Greece. It offers new and unpublished material on Cicero’s presence in Greece literally, deriving from his epistles, speeches and philosophical treatises, but also on his interaction with the Greek philosophical schools, the Greek language and politics, etc. Besides, it offers new knowledge on the appreciation and reception of Cicero and his texts by the Greek world from Late Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece, based on material deriving from a variety of sources (papyri, manuscripts, compendia or encyclopaedias, imitations, translations, early editions, etc.), an aspect of the relationships between Cicero and Greece still understudied. Thus, the volume offers an image as illustrative as possible of various aspects of the presence of the Greek world in Cicero’s works and of Cicero’s presence in Greece from his own times to the present day.