Creative Eloquence - The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches

Zusatztext The book is eloquent and well structured, which helps the reader to get through the rich material and aids further thinking on both individual elements and the entire project. Another strength of the book is that it invites discussion and one does not have to agree with all the analysis or conclusions to benefit from this extravaganza of ideas. Informationen zum Autor Ingo Gildenhard is a Reader in Latin Literature and Roman Culture, Durham University Klappentext A study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 BC). Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on such perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice. Zusammenfassung A study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 BC). Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on such perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Cicero's philosophical oratory I. Anthropology Introduction: Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis 1: Being human 2: Human beings 3: The good, the bad, and the in-between 4: Mental states II. Sociology Introduction: Imagining community 5: Definition and the politics of truth 6: Laws and justice 7: Civilization and its discontents 8: Coping with Caesar III. Theology Introduction: Rome's civic religion 9: Ontological elevation and divine favouritism 10: Cicero's theodicy 11: Tyranny and the divine 12: Life after death Conclusion

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• Authors: Ingo Gildenhard, Ingo (Reader in Latin Literature and Roman Culture Gildenhard, Gildenhard Ingo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2011
• EAN: 9780199291557
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929155-7
• No. of pages: 450
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form