
William H. F. Altman, "The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero" (Lexington Books, 2016)
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Plato, Humor, and the Rhetorical Paradox
Altman emphasizes Plato's irony about rhetoric, praises Cicero's humor, and defends Plato as compatible with civic eloquence.
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