[PDF] Cicero Rhetoric And Empire eBook

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199248476

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Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions ofadministrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191554502

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Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.

Author : Thomas J. Keeline
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108426239

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Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9047404645

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This volume examines the transmission and influence of Ciceronian rhetoric from late antiquity to the fifteenth century, examining the relationship between rhetoric and practices as diverse as law, dialectic, memory theory, poetics, and ethics. Includes an appendix of primary texts

Author : Giuseppe La Bua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107068584

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Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521509939

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A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

Author : Thomas John Keeline
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2014
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My dissertation investigates the reception of Cicero in the early Roman Empire, focusing on the first 250 years after his death. I show that this reception is primarily constructed by the ancient rhetorical schoolroom, where young Romans first encountered Cicero, reading his speeches and writing Ciceronian declamations. Here they were exposed to a particular version of the man, with emphases often selected for political purposes. When they grew up, that schoolroom image of Cicero continued to permeate their thought and writing. My study unpacks this complex process and lays bare the early Empire's relationship with one of its most significant late Republican predecessors.

Author : Cecil W. Wooten
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807815588

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Cicero's Philippics and Their Demosthenic Model: The Rhetoric of Crisis

Author : C.E.W. Steel
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :

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Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics.