Cicero''s Political Personae

Provides new insights into Cicero's political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The orator as attacker; 2. The orator as friend; 3. The orator as a martyr; 4. The authority figure; 5. The champion of the senate; 6. The popular orator; 7. The voice of a faction; 8. A great man's spokesman; Conclusion.

About the author

Joanna Kenty earned her PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently held positions at the University of New Hampshire, Radboud University in the Netherlands, and Temple University's campus in Rome. Her research focuses on the confluence of literature, history and politics in the late Roman republic, and she has also published articles on classical receptions in the American Revolution, as well as continuities from ancient to modern American political rhetoric.

Product details

• Authors: Kenty Joanna Kenty, Joanna Kenty
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108839464
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83946-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Biography and non-fiction prose, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval