Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works

ISBN-13: 9780199267804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 400 str.

John Dugan

Opis

In Making a New Man John Dugan investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a "new man."

Recenzje

...an ambitious and satisfying investigation...Dugan's study does what it says it will do, and more, and in the end has breathed new life into both the rhetorica and the Cicero presented within them.

O autorze

John Dugan is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department, State University of New York at Buffalo.