Cicero on the Attack
Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond
Published on 30. November 2007
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-905125-19-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Swansea
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905125-19-7 (9781905125197)
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12/2007
Classical Press of Wales
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Person
Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II.
Content
Joan Booth (Leiden), Introduction: Man and Matter; J.G.F.Powell (Royal Holloway, London), Invective and the Orator: Ciceronian Theory and Practice; Robin Seager (Liverpool), Ciceronian Invective: Themes and Variations; Javier UrYa (Zaragoza), Semantics and Pragmatics of Ciceronian Invective; Keith Hopwood (Lampeter), Smear and Spin: Ciceronian Tactics in De Lege Agraria II; Catherine Steel (Glasgow), Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Others in the post-Exile Speeches; Byron Harries (Swansea), Acting the Part: Techniques of the Comic Stage in Cicero's Early Speeches; Ingo Gildenhard (Durham), Greek Auxiliaries: Tragedy and Philosophy in Ciceronian Invective; Rogier L.van der Wal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) 'What a Funny Consul we have!': Cicero's Dealings with Cato and Prominent Friends in Opposition.