Format:
1 online resource (206 pages)
ISBN:
9780511989520
Content:
Develops readings of Rome's historians Sallust, Livy and Tacitus in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric.
Content:
COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- I. SETTING THE STAGE -- II. THE "ROMAN TURN" IN POLITICAL THEORY AND THE HISTORIANS SALLUST, LIVY, AND TACITUS -- III. REPUBLICANISM AND POLITICAL THEORY -- IV. RHETORIC AND POLITICAL THEORY -- V. REPUBLICANISM, RHETORIC, AND THE ROMAN HISTORIANS -- VI. PLAN OF THE BOOK -- 2 AN AMBIGUOUS REPUBLICAN: Sallust on Fear, Conflict, and Community -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SALLUST: AN AMBIGUOUS REPUBLICAN -- III. SALLUST AND THE ROLE OF COLLECTIVE FEAR IN THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- IV. ANTAGONISM IN SALLUST'S HISTORIES -- V. DICHOTOMIES AND THEIR BREAKDOWN -- VI. CONCLUSION -- 3 CHANNELING CONFLICT THROUGH ANTAGONISTIC RHETORIC IN THE WAR WITH CATILINE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. REDESCRIPTION AND DELIBERATIVE ORATORY -- III. THE HONORABLE, THE ADVANTAGEOUS, AND DELIBERATIVE ORATORY -- IV. CATO, CAESAR, AND REDESCRIPTION -- V. THE SYNKRISIS -- VI. ANTAGONISM AND RHETORIC -- VII. CONCLUSION -- 4 EXEMPLARITY AND GOODWILL IN LIVY'S FROM THE FOUNDING OF ROME -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ETHOS, PATHOS, AND GOODWILL -- III. FROM RHETORIC TO ACTION -- IV. MORALS AND EXAMPLES IN LIVY'S HISTORY -- V. THE BREAKDOWN OF CONSENSUS AND GOODWILL -- VI. FEAR, LOVE, AND CONSENSUS -- VII. CONCLUSION -- 5 TACITUS ON GREAT MEN, BAD RULERS, AND PRUDENCE -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CICERO'S ON THE IDEAL ORATOR AND THE ORATOR'S POLITICAL ROLE -- III. A CHANGED CONTEXT -- IV. GAIN-GETTING RHETORIC GREEDY FOR HUMAN BLOOD: POLITICS AND POETRY IN A DIALOGUE ON ORATORS -- V. CICERO, MATERNUS, AND THE QUARREL BETWEEN RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY -- VI. PRUDENCE AND THE ACTIVE LIFE IN TACITUS' AGRICOLA -- VII. CONCLUSION -- 6 TACITUS' MORAL HISTORIES -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE CONCENTRATION OF POWER AND THE DISTORTION OF ELOQUENCE -- III. TACITUS' PURPOSES -- IV. BLURRING PRAISE AND COUNSEL.
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COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 AN AMBIGUOUS REPUBLICAN: Sallust on Fear, Conflict, and Community; 3 CHANNELING CONFLICT THROUGH ANTAGONISTIC RHETORIC IN THE WAR WITH CATILINE; 4 EXEMPLARITY AND GOODWILL IN LIVY'S FROM THE FOUNDING OF ROME; 5 TACITUS ON GREAT MEN, BAD RULERS, AND PRUDENCE; 6 TACITUS' MORAL HISTORIES; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107000575
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107000575
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=647424
