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

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.>

Summary

Includes essays that examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Booth
• Assisted by: Joan Booth (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9781905125197
• ISBN: 978-1-905125-19-7
• No. of pages: 220
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies