Format:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
ISBN:
9780691123646
Content:
Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped b
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations used; INTRODUCTION: Rhetoric and political thought; CHAPTER ONE: Founding the state of speech; CHAPTER TWO: Naturalized citizens; CHAPTER THREE: The body politic; CHAPTER FOUR: The aesthetics of virtue; CHAPTER FIVE: Republican theater; CHAPTER SIX: Imperial reenactments; CONCLUSION: The Ciceronian citizen in a global world; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ANCIENT SOURCES; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400827947
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691123646
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The State of Speech : Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome
Language:
English
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