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Cicero's Political Personae
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Cicero's Personae -- Outline -- Chapter 1 The Orator as Attacker -- Introduction -- Demolishing Vatinius -- Repressing Clodius -- Ridiculing Piso -- Resisting Anto...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
, 2020
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6360476 |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Cicero's Personae -- Outline -- Chapter 1 The Orator as Attacker -- Introduction -- Demolishing Vatinius -- Repressing Clodius -- Ridiculing Piso -- Resisting Antony -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Orator as Friend -- Introduction -- Gratitude and Praise -- Panegyric in Pro Balbo -- Friendship with Caesar -- Praise as Pressure -- Cicero's "Friends" in 44-43 bce -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Orator as a Martyr -- Introduction -- The Weeping Martyr in De Domo Sua -- Martyrdom as Exemplum in Pro Sestio -- Cato the Younger as the Ideal Martyr -- Martyrdom in the Philippics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Orator without Authority -- Introduction -- Tiptoeing around Pompey in Pro Milone -- Insecurity and Inappropriate Jokes in the Caesarian Orations -- Self-Fashioning in Silence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Champion of the Senate -- Introduction -- Defending His Consulship -- The Senate's Oppressors in 58 bce -- Caesar as the Senate's Champion -- Reviving the Senate in the Philippics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Popular Orator -- Introduction -- The Triumphant Return -- Unpopular Populares -- The Will of the People -- Popularity in the Philippics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Voice of a Faction -- Introduction -- Partisan Invective in De Domo Sua -- A "True" and a "False" Populus -- Legitimate Force vs. Wanton Violence in Pro Sestio -- Pompeians and Populares in 43 bce -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 A Great Man's Spokesman -- Introduction -- Friends of the "First Triumvirate" -- Clodius' Avengers -- Caesar's Tribunes -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index locorum -- Index. Provides new insights into Cicero's political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108880862 |
