THE ANECDOTE IN CICERO: Ciceroniana. Zur anekdotischen Strategie in Ciceros rhetoriktheoretischen und philosophischen Schriften. (Episteme in Bewegung 27.) Pp. xii + 401. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022. Cased, €89. ISBN: 978-3-447-11811-8

Since Classics has overcome its reservations concerning Cicero's philosophical and theoretical writings in recent decades, intensive research has emerged that is working on an unbiased reassessment of the Roman author and his oeuvre, revising the negative judgements that go back far into the nineteenth century. [...]it aims to make a fundamental contribution to sharpening the anecdote as a genre and, in particular, its epistemological potential. [...]he opens up the anecdote as a fragment of knowledge, as it were, which indicates the lack of closure of philosophical discourses and thus becomes recognisable as a narrative complement for the constitutive openness of Cicero's dialogues.