Rhetoric in Cicero''s Pro Balbo - An Interpretation

Informationen zum Autor Kimberly A. Barber received a Ph.D. in Classics in 1997 from the University of Texas! Austin! and an LL.B. in 1998 from the University of Toronto! Ontario. She currently practices law in Ottawa! Ontario. Klappentext This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech! the Pro Balbo. The first detailed study of the speech! this study analyses the work according to the ancient rhetorical categories. Zusammenfassung This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lexPapia for an illegal grant of citizenship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Inventio : Ethos 2. Inventio : Pathos 3. Inventio : Logos 4. Dispositio 5. Elocutio Conclusions Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Passages Discussed

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly A. Barber
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2004
• EAN: 9780415969956
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96995-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Studies in Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; History, LAW / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / World, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Humanities, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form