Ciceros Style

Author : M. von Albrecht
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047401972
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Style written by M. von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero was speaking like everybody, but better than anybody. Far from confining himself to the so-called 'periodic style', Cicero was a master of a thousand shades. This synopsis, followed by examples, shows in detail, why a study of Cicero's style might be rewarding even today.

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 : 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 : Steven M. Cerutti
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761804383
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Accretive Style written by Steven M. Cerutti and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's Accretive Style is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian exordium and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the exordia of a selection of Cicero's judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the exordium as he himself defined them. The speeches selected for study include the Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, and Pro Rege Deiotaro, and cover the span of Cicero's career. The focus of the analysis is on Cicero's "accretive" style--not a rhetorical device in the formal sense, but a conscious, stylistic effort whose effect is rhetorical. Because Cicero also wrote important treatises on oratory and rhetoric, this book measures how closely Cicero followed his own guidelines laid down for the exordium, and how and under what circumstances he deviated or departed from them.

Author : Walter Ralph Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520093836
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luxuriance and Economy: Cicero and the Alien Style written by Walter Ralph Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521687225
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Oratory written by Catherine Steel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Gesine Manuwald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110920476
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero, "Philippics" 3-9 written by Gesine Manuwald and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippics form the climax of Cicero’s rhetorical achievement and political activity. Besides, these fourteen speeches are an important testimony to the critical final phase of the Roman Republic. Yet for a long time they have received little scholarly attention. This two-volume edition now provides a comprehensive scholarly commentary on Philippics 3-9, seven central speeches of the corpus. Full annotations explain the speeches in terms of linguistic, literary and historical issues (vol. 2); they are based on a revised Latin text with a facing translation into English as well as a detailed introduction dealing with problems relevant to the whole corpus; a bibliography and indices complete the edition (vol. 1). Besides a running commentary on each speech, the study shows these orations to be rhetorical constructs in a historical conflict; hence particular emphasis is placed on an analysis of Cicero’s rhetorical techniques and political strategies. The format of the commentary is also intended to present scholarly information to a wide and diverse readership.

Author : Christopher S. van den Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009281348
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus written by Christopher S. van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book studies the work from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives: Cicero's account of oratorical history, the confrontation with Caesar, and the exploration of what it means to write a history of an artistic practice. Close readings of this dialogue-including its apparent contradictions and tendentious fabrications-reveal a crucial and crucially productive moment in Greco-Roman thought. Cicero, this book argues, created the first nuanced, sophisticated, and ultimately 'modern' literary history, crafting both a compelling justification of Rome's oratorical traditions and also laying a foundation for literary historiography that abides to this day. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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 : Kimberly A. Barber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135879354
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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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.