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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fantham, Elaine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.