Exempla Externa in Cicero's Orations: A Rhetorical Approach

ISBN-13: 9783631850138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Damian Pierzak

Opis

This book examines the ways in which Cicero employed foreign examples (exempla externa) in his orations. It argues that there were many different categories of exemplum for Cicero to choose and that exempla externa were not necessarily suitable for negative lessons.

Spis treści

Aristotle's views on exemplum - degrees of similarity between the 'illustrans' and 'illustrandum' - the reversed antonomasia - rhetorical theory and Cicero's oratorical practice - the choice and meaning of foreign examples (exempla externa) in Cicero's orations.

O autorze

Damian Pierzak is former Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His main research interests are Roman oratory and Latin literature of the republican period.