Cicero on Oratory and Orators (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address) - Softcover

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080931293X ISBN 13: 9780809312931

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

Contains Cicero’s De Oratore and Brutus, influential sources over the centuries for ideas on rhetoric and train­ing for public leadership.

The De Oratore, written in 55 B.C., argues that rhetoric is socially significant because states are established and main­tained through the leadership of eloquent men.

The three books of dialogues in this volume feature discussions between well-known figures in Roman history, in­cluding Lucius Crassus, Marcus An­tonius, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, Quin­tus Marcius Scaevola, Caius Aurelius Cotta, Julius Caesar Strabo Vopicus, and Publius Sulpicus Rufus.

The Brutus continues the theme of the dialogues, giving a history of eminent orators whose performances exemplify the Ciceronian theory that rhetoric final­ly adds up to leadership.

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Ralph A. Micken is Emeritus Professor of Speech and former Chairman of the Department at Southern Illinois Univer­sity, Carbondale.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080931293X
• ISBN 13: 9780809312931
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
• Herausgeber: Watson J. S.
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