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The construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium : the rhetoric of empire /
Examines how rhetoric shaped the ancients' reality and played a part in the upkeep of their political structures.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Republican Rome's Rhetorical Pattern of Political Authority
- Virtual Reality: To Win Fame and Practice Virtue
- Creation of a Public Image: Rome's Virtuous Man
- Virtue and Remembrance: The Tomb of the Scipiones
- Variations on the Theme: Cicero's Virtuous Roman
- Pater Patriae: Symbol of Authority and Embodiment of Tradition
- Virtuous Father: Gaius Julius Caesar
- Ch. 2. Empire of Words and Men
- Augustus's Achievements: A Memory Shaped
- Horace's Poem 3.2: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- Nero: What an Artist Dies with Me!
- Vespasian: The Upstart from Reate
- Trajan: Jupiter on Earth
- Maximus: Hollywood's Ideal Roman
- Ch. 3. Appropriation of a Pattern Mending the Known World Order
- New World Order
- Constantine, Very Wisely, Seldom Said "No"
- Pagan's Last Stand
- Augustine: The Christian Cicero
- Claudian's On the Fourth Consulate of Honorius
- Ch. 4. Power of Rhetoric
- Last Roman Emperor: Justinian
- First Byzantine Emperor: Heraclius
- View to the West: Charlemagne
- Back to the East: A Theocratic State?