Alte Freunde im Gespräch: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der amicitia bei Cicero - Old Friends in Conversation: Aspiration and Reality of Friendship in Cicero

What is the relationship between the idealised pair of amici Scipio and Laelius, as portrayed in Cicero’s Laelius, and the real-life pair of amici, Cicero and Atticus, which appear in the Letters? Was Cicero’s intention to use the character of Laelius in the treatise to voice his own views on friend...

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Main Author: Meinolf Vielberg
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2017-11-01
Series:Ciceroniana On Line
Online Access:https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/2501
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Summary:What is the relationship between the idealised pair of amici Scipio and Laelius, as portrayed in Cicero’s Laelius, and the real-life pair of amici, Cicero and Atticus, which appear in the Letters? Was Cicero’s intention to use the character of Laelius in the treatise to voice his own views on friendship – a character whose name Cicero regularly borrows in his letters as a pseudonym? Can we see in the guidelines set down by Laelius in the dialogue a reflection of Cicero’s friendship with Atticus and with other political figures, influenced as these were by the social upheaval of the Late Republic? The article seeks to answer these questions through a parallel reading of the Laelius and a selection of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus. In so doing, I argue that key theoretical principles of the dialogue are based on Cicero’s and Atticus’ shared lived experiences, as Atticus himself was able to appreciate (Lael. 5, cuius tota disputatio est de amicitia, quam legens te ipse cognosces).   In welchem Verhältnis steht das ideale Freundespaar Scipio und Laelius in dem gleichnamigen Dialog Ciceros zu dem realen Freundespaar Cicero und Atticus, das uns aus den Briefen entgegentritt? Mochte Cicero seine Dialogfigur Laelius, deren Namen er in den Atticusbriefen für sich als Pseudonym wählte, als Sprachrohr nutzen, um eigene Gedanken über das Wesen der Freundschaft auszudrücken? Spiegeln sich in den von Laelius formulierten Gesetzen der Freundschaft Erfahrungen, die Cicero mit seinem Freund Atticus, aber wegen veränderter gesellschaftlicher Rahmenbedingungen in der späten Republik auch mit politischen Freunden gemacht hatte? Der Vergleich paralleler Stellen des Laelius und der Briefe an Atticus ergibt, dass zentrale Theoreme des Dialogs auch auf persönlich gefärbten Erfahrungen beruhen, die Cicero in seiner Freundschaft mit Atticus gemacht hatte, und Atticus sich daher, wie Cicero es ausdrückt (Lael.5, cuius tota disputatio est de amicitia, quam legens te ipse cognosces), bei der Lektüre des Dialogs über die Freundschaft auch selbst wiedererkennen konnte.   Qual’è il rapporto tra la coppia ideale di amici Scipione-Lelio, rappresentata nell’omonimo dialogo di Cicerone, e la coppia reale di amici Cicerone-Attico, che ci appare nelle Epistole? Era intenzione di Cicerone usare il personaggio di Lelio, il cui nome egli sceglie nelle lettere ad Attico come proprio pseudonimo, in qualità di portavoce dei propri pensieri all’intorno all’essenza dell’amicizia? Nelle leggi dell’amicizia formulate da Lelio si riflettono le esperienze che Cicerone aveva fatto sia con Attico, sia – a causa dei cambiamenti sociali verificatisi nell’età della tarda repubblica – con altri amici nella cerchia dei politici? Dal confronto tra passi paralleli del Laelius e delle lettere ad Attico risulta che teoremi centrali del dialogo si fondano anche su esperienze attinte dalle vicende personali che Cicerone aveva vissuto con Attico e nelle quali, come testimonia Cicerone (Lael. 5, cuius tota disputatio est de amicitia, quam legens te ipse cognosces), lo stesso Attico, leggendo il dialogo sull’amicizia, aveva potuto riconoscersi.
ISSN:2532-5299
2532-5353