About a Latin word: how the Romans learned about the notion of humanity (II)

Abstract

In the second part of his work, Boissier deals in depth with the character and constitution of the circle of the Scipios and their modulation of humanitas in keeping with their relations with Hellenism. Although first he stops to demarcate the inheritances and distances between the theater of Terence and that of Plautus and their treatment of Roman intimacy. He will then address the problem of cosmopolitanism of Hellenic affiliation and its relationship with Roman patriotism at the hands of Cicero to end with a presentist reflection that says as much about classical Rome as it does about the vision that Boissier had of its present.