Cicero on the Attack

Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-11-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt546 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoman World
Antal sidor216
FörlagClassical Press of Wales
ISBN9781905125197

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Joan Booth (Leiden), Introduction: Man and Matter; J.G.F.Powell (Royal Holloway, London), Invective and the Orator: Ciceronian Theory and Practice; Robin Seager (Liverpool), Ciceronian Invective: Themes and Variations; Javier UrYa (Zaragoza), Semantics and Pragmatics of Ciceronian Invective; Keith Hopwood (Lampeter), Smear and Spin: Ciceronian Tactics in De Lege Agraria II; Catherine Steel (Glasgow), Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Others in the post-Exile Speeches; Byron Harries (Swansea), Acting the Part: Techniques of the Comic Stage in Cicero's Early Speeches; Ingo Gildenhard (Durham), Greek Auxiliaries: Tragedy and Philosophy in Ciceronian Invective; Rogier L.van der Wal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) 'What a Funny Consul we have!': Cicero's Dealings with Cato and Prominent Friends in Opposition.