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Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond

Editat de Joan Booth
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2007
This title includes eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, that 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781905125197
ISBN-10: 1905125194
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: The Classical Press of Wales (UK)
Colecția Classical Press of Wales
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II.

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroduction: Man and Matter - Joan Booth1. Invective and the Orator: Ciceronian Theory and Practice - J.G.F. Powell2. Ciceronian Invective: Themes and Variations - Robin Seager3. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Ciceronian Invective - Javier Uría4. Smear and Spin: Ciceronian Tactics in De Lege Agraria I - Keith Hopwood5. Name and Shame? Invective Against Clodius and Others in the Post-Exile Speeches - Catherine Steel6. Acting the Part: Techniques of the Comic Stage in Cicero's Early Speeches - Byron Harries7. Greek Auxiliaries: Tragedy and Philosophy in Ciceronian Invective - Ingo Gildenhard8. 'What a Funny Consul We Have!' Cicero's Dealings with Cato Uticensis and Prominent Friends in Opposition - Rogier L. van der WalIndex