Author: Christopher P. Craig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Gábor Tahin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319017993
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero’s forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors.

Author: C. E. W. Steel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521509939
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

Author: D. H. Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768950
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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This book explores the interplay of form and function in both real and fictional oratory at Rome.

Author: Joanna Kenty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108879330
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Cicero's speeches provide a fascinating window into the political battles and crises of his time. In this book, Joanna Kenty examines Cicero's persuasive strategies and the subtleties of his Latin prose, and shows how he used eight political personae – the attacker, the grateful friend, the martyr, the senator, the partisan ideologue, and others – to maximize his political leverage in the latter half of his career. These personae were what made his arguments convincing, and drew audiences into Cicero's perspective. Non-specialist and expert readers alike will gain new insight into Cicero's corpus and career as a whole, as well as a better appreciation of the context, details, and nuances of individual passages.

Author: Kimberly A. Barber
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135879354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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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 lex Papia for an illegal grant of citizenship.

Author: Steven M. Cerutti
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761804383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Cicero's Accretive Style is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian exordium and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the exordia of a selection of Cicero's judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the exordium as he himself defined them. The speeches selected for study include the Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, and Pro Rege Deiotaro, and cover the span of Cicero's career. The focus of the analysis is on Cicero's "accretive" style--not a rhetorical device in the formal sense, but a conscious, stylistic effort whose effect is rhetorical. Because Cicero also wrote important treatises on oratory and rhetoric, this book measures how closely Cicero followed his own guidelines laid down for the exordium, and how and under what circumstances he deviated or departed from them.

Author: C. E. W. Steel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191554502
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.

Author: Giuseppe La Bua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107068584
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316102165
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Pro Marco Caelio is perhaps Cicero's best-loved speech and has long been regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Roman oratory. Speaking in defence of the young aristocrat Marcus Caelius Rufus on charges of political violence, Cicero scores his points with wit but also with searing invective directed at a supporter of the prosecution, Clodia Metelli, whom he represents as seeking vengeance as a lover spurned by his client. This new edition and detailed commentary offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as scholars, a detailed analysis of Cicero's rhetorical strategies and stylistic refinements and presents a systematic account of the background and significance of the speech, including in-depth explanations of Roman court proceedings.