Cicero Rhetoric And Empire

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191554502
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire written by C. E. W. Steel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.

Author : Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426239
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire written by Thomas J. Keeline and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383038668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire written by C. E. W. Steel and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire in an important group of speeches. In this monograph the author examines Cicero's rhetorical techniques and aims in detail.

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521509939
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Cicero written by C. E. W. Steel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

Author : Thomas Habinek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470775327
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory written by Thomas Habinek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. Explores the role of the orator, especially the two greatest figures of the tradition, Demosthenes and Cicero Investigates the place of rhetoric at the center of ancient education Considers the role of rhetoric since the end of antiquity. Includes a glossary of proper names and technical terms; a chronological table of political events, authors, orators, and rhetorical works; and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Giuseppe La Bua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107068584
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero and Roman Education written by Giuseppe La Bua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.

Author : Cecil W. Wooten III
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469644290
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model written by Cecil W. Wooten III and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Cicero's Phillipics are his most mature speeches, they have received little attention as works of oratory. On the other hand, scholars in this century have considered Cicero's attitudes toward and dependence on Demosthenes to be an issue of importance. Cecil Wooten brings together these two concerns, linking Cicero's use of Demosthenes as a model in the Phillipics to precise analyses of style, rhetorical modulation, and narrative technique. In doing so he defines and demonstrates the effectiveness of a type of oratory that he terms "the rhetoric of crisis." Characteristic of such rhetoric is the polarization of a conflict into a dichotomy between good and evil, right and wrong. The orator adopts a stance in which he is obsessed with the struggle, with victory, and with the preservation of a tradition. He defines his present crisis in terms of patterns that have appeared in the past, which means that he is likely to choose from the past a model for his own response to the crisis. In Demosthenes, Cicero found a statesman that had faced a similar political situation. Demosthenes' speeches were directed against Philip of Macedon, whose expanding empire threatened the survival of the Greek city-states. Antony posed an equally severe threat to the Roman republic, and Cicero therefore turned to Demosthenes' speeches as a model for his own. The oratory of both was forged during a period of supreme crisis, at a critical turning point in civilization. "Tremendous talent," Wooten writes of this oratory, "is coupled with the instinct for survival, the most basic of human impulses, to produce a form of oratory that is characterized by extreme clarity of vision, purposefulness, vividness, and rapidity of presentation, an oratory that is clean and direct and decisive, in which the organic synthesis of content, arrangement, and style is remarkable and striking." Originally published 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Aubrey Gwynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian written by Aubrey Gwynn and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Cicero on Oratory and Orators written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kimberly A. Barber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135879354
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo written by Kimberly A. Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lex Papia for an illegal grant of citizenship.