Creative Eloquence : The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199291551
ISBN-13
9780199291557
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
Nov 25th, 2010
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
840 grams
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23.90 x 16.20 x 3.10 cms
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A study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 BC). Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on such perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice.
The statesman Cicero (106-43 BC) left behind a corpus of about 50 orations, all designed as interventions in the legal and political struggles that marked the final decades of the Roman republic. Ever since their publication during his lifetime they have functioned as models of eloquence. However, they also contain profound philosophical thoughts on the question of being human, on politics, society, and culture, and on the sphere of the divine. Now, for the first time, Ingo Gildenhard systematically analyses this dimension of Cicero''s oratory and, in so doing, touches upon many key issues and concepts that still preoccupy us today, such as the ethics of happiness or the notion of conscience, the distinction between civilization and barbarity, or the problem of divine justice.
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