Making a New Man
Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
Av John Dugan, State University of New York at Buffalo) Dugan, John (, Assistant Professor, Classics Department, DUGAN, Dugan
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.In Making a New Man John Dugan investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a `new man'.
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- Utgivningsdatum2005-03-03
- Mått146 x 223 x 26 mm
- Vikt597 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor400
- FörlagOUP OXFORD
- ISBN9780199267804
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