Beschreibung:
Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, 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.
Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, 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.
Preface Introduction: man and matterJoan Booth 1. Invective and the orator: Ciceronian theory and practiceJ.G.F. Powell 2. Ciceronian invective: themes and variationsRobin Seager 3. The semantics and pragmatics of Ciceronian invectiveJavier Uria 4. Smear and spin: Ciceronian tactics in De Lege Agraria IKeith Hopwood 5. Name and shame? Invective against Clodius and others in the post-exile speechesCatherine Steel 6. Acting the part: techniques of the comic stage in Cicero's early speechesByron Harries 7. Greek auxiliaries: tragedy and philosophy in Ciceronian invectiveIngo Gildenhard 8. 'What a funny consul we have!' Cicero's dealings with Cato Uticensis and prominent friends in oppositionRogier L. van der Wal Index