The Roman world of Cicero's De oratore /
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore aims to provide an accessible study of Cicero's first and fullest dialogue on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a reflection of a civilized way of life and a brilliantly constructed literary unity, and consi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Cicero at 50
- 2. The public careers of L. Licinius Crassus and M. Antonius
- 3. Constructing the dialogue : the challenge of Plato
- 4. The future orator : talent, training, and the choice of model
- 5. The orator and the law
- 6. Oratory and literature : the spoken and the written word
- 7. Rediscovering Aristotelian invention
- 8. Wit and humour as the orator's combat weapons
- 9. Political persuasion : senate and Contio
- 10. Style and substance : Cicero's rethinking of Elocutio
- 11. Res Pervolgatae : words and their manipulation in standard rhetorical theory
- 12. Into action : the orator as public figure
- 13. Epilogue : the statesman and the state in De Oratore and after.