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almahu_9949481279802882
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1 online resource (328 p.) :
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5 b/w illus.
ISBN:
9780691221021
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9783110993899
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How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes-including one asserting that "he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city." In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite-and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire --
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1 Education in the Roman Empire --
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2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education --
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Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric --
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3 The Carrion Men --
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4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy --
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5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? --
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Section III Rhetoric's Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire --
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6 Monumental Nymphaea --
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7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit --
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Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law --
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8 Rhetoric and Roman Law --
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9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law --
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10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law --
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Conclusion rhetoric, maker of worlds --
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Notes --
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Abbreviations of some modern works --
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Works cited --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110992878
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Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110749731
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691221007
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9780691221021
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221021?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691221021
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