Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire

Zusatztext ... an enterprising book on an important topic ... Skilfully weaving historical, rhetorical, and political concerns, Steel handles a wide range of evidence with imagination and acumen. Informationen zum Autor C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow Klappentext This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of political oratory and puts Cicero's attitude to empire, with its limitations and weaknesses, in the context of wider debates among his contemporaries on the problems of empire. Zusammenfassung This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of political oratory and puts Cicero's attitude to empire, with its limitations and weaknesses, in the context of wider debates among his contemporaries on the problems of empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Romans in the provinces: power, autonomy, and identity 2: How to become a Roman: the cases of Archias and Balbus 3: Controlling the uncontrollable: Cicero and the generals 4: Portrait of the orator as a great man: Cicero on Cicero 5: Imperial contexts Epilogue: the limits of oratory

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• Authors: C E W Steel, C. E. W. Steel, C.E.W. Steel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780199248476
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924847-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form