Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781905125197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 216 str.

Joan Booth

Opis

Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.