Cicero the Advocate

Cicero the Advocate PDF Author: Jonathan Powell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191541516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as designed to ensure that the person he represents is acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It seeks to set the speeches within the context of the court system of the Late Roman Republic and to explore in detail the strategies available to Roman advocates to win the votes of jurors. The volume comprises a substantial introduction, fourteen chapters by prominent Ciceronian scholars in Britain, North America, and Germany, and a final chapter by a current British Appeal Court judge who comments on Cicero's techniques from the point of view of a modern advocate. The introduction deals with issues concerning the general nature of advocacy, the Roman court system as compared with other ancient and modern systems, the Roman 'profession' of advocacy and its etiquette, the place of advocacy in Cicero's career, the ancient theory of rhetoric and argument as applied to courtroom advocacy, and the relationship between the published texts of the speeches as we have them and the speeches actually delivered in court. The first eight chapters discuss general themes: legal procedure in Cicero's time, Cicero's Italian clients, Cicero's methods of setting out or alluding to the facts of a case, his use of legal arguments, arguments from character, invective, self-reference, and emotional appeal, the last of these especially in the concluding sections of his speeches. Chapters 9-14 examine a range of particular speeches as case studies - In Verrem II.1 (from Cicero's only major extant prosecution case), Pro Archia, De Domo Sua, Pro Caecina, Pro Cluentio, Pro Ligario. These speeches cover the period of the height of Cicero's career, from 70 BC, when Cicero became acknowledged as the leading Roman advocate, to 49 BC when Caesar's dictatorship required Cicero to adapt his well-tried forensic techniques to drastically new circumstances, and they contain arguments on a wide range of subject-matter, including provincial maladministration, usurpation of citizenship rights, violent dispossession, the religious law relating to the consecration of property, poisoning, bribery, and political offences. Other speeches, including all the better-known ones, are used as illustrative examples in the introduction and in the more general chapters. An appendix lists all Cicero's known appearances as an advocate.

Cicero the advocate

Cicero the advocate PDF Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Cicero the Advocate

Cicero the Advocate PDF Author: J. G. F. Powell
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780199298297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
A collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero's forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ancient and modern, analysing Cicero's various techniques of persuasion, and examining a number of speeches in detail as case studies.

Cicero and the Jurists

Cicero and the Jurists PDF Author: Jill Harries
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Places the Roman Republican jurists, hitherto largely neglected by historians, in their intellectual, social and political context

Cicero's Law

Cicero's Law PDF Author: Paul J. du Plessis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408842
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.

How to Run a Country

How to Run a Country PDF Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691156573
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
"Gathers Cicero's most perceptive thoughts on topics such as leadership, corruption, the balance of power, taxes, war, immigration, and the importance of compromise." -- Dust jacket.

The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric

The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric PDF Author: Richard Leo Enos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The first book to examine closely how the relationship of Cicero's oral and written skills bears on his legal argumentation. Enos argues that, more than any other Roman advocate, Cicero developed a "literate mind" which enabled him to construct arguments that were both compelling in court and popular in society. Through close examination of the audience and substance of Cicero's legal rhetoric, Enos shows that Cicero used his writing skills as an aid to composition of his oral arguments; after the trial, he again used writing to edit and re-compose texts that appear as "speeches" but function as literary statements directed to a public audience far removed from the courtroom. These statements are couched "in a mode that would eventually become a standard of literary eloquence." Enos explores the differences between oral and literary composition to reveal relationships that bear not only on different modes of expression but also on the conceptual and cultural factors that shape meaning itself.

Ethics and the Orator

Ethics and the Orator PDF Author: Gary Remer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022643916X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Prologue: Quintilian and John of Salisbury in the Ciceronian tradition -- Rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and morality: the contemporary relevance of Cicero vis-a-vis Aristotle -- Political morality, conventional morality, and decorum in Cicero -- Rhetoric as a balancing of ends: Cicero and Machiavelli -- Justus Lipsius, morally acceptable deceit, and prudence in the Ciceronian tradition -- The classical orator as political representative: Cicero and the modern concept of representation -- Deliberative democracy and rhetoric: Cicero, oratory, and conversation

Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero PDF Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Defence Speeches

Defence Speeches PDF Author: Cicero,
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199537909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
This book presents five of Cicero's courtroom defences, including the defence of Roscius, falsely accused of murdering his father; of the consul-elect Murena, accused of electoral bribery; and of Milo, for murdering Cicero's enemy Clodius.