Name: JULIO MORGUETTI NETO
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 29/04/2020
Advisor:
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| LENI RIBEIRO LEITE | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| ADRIANA PEREIRA CAMPOS | Internal Examiner * |
| LENI RIBEIRO LEITE | Advisor * |
Summary: The American revolutionary process, as well as the debates over the political foundations on the newborn State, lies on a series of questions; how it will be the political system; a contention over centralized power or a confederation among the former colonies; and other several complications. All these issues have been debated and influenced by a series of provocations belonging to the eighteenth century, one of them that brings ours attention on this work is about the Greek and Roman Classical Reception. These classic influences are crucial shapers on the cultural and conceptual apparatus of the American founding fathers, becoming principles of a common cultural identity for the formation of a nation without a previous established union. The presence of the Hellenic and Latin classic culture is one of the founding stone of political, economic, social and cultural structures. Over this matter, we seek to analyze how the permanence of a classic rhetoric tradition still had an impact in the late eighteenth century America, especially among the members of the American political elite, like John Adams, our main object of study. We will discuss how the ciceronian stylistic influenced the works of the American founders, including the private sphere of the letters and how this process of the ciceronian reception was constituted on the epistolary production of John Adams, especially in the letters exchanged with his wife Abigail Adams during the context of Continental Congress (1774-1777). To establish this dialogue with classic epistolary, as well as with his structures, we shed our attention to a certain group of Ciceros letters known as Ad Familiares and Ad Atticum, especially the letters during the time that Cicero was absent from Rome due to his political quarrels with Clodius. Thus, our goal is to establish a dialogue between the rhetoric structures from the Epistolography compositions of both in pursuit of an exilic ethos due to political reasons and for service to the republican ideal.
