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

Booth, Joan (Editor)/ Gildenhard, Ingo (Contributor)/ Harries, Byron (Contributor)/ Hopwood, Keith (Contributor)/ Powell, J. G. F. (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1905125194 / ISBN 13: 9781905125197

Published by Classical Pr of Wales, 2008

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216 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cicero on the Attack Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond
• Publisher: Classical Pr of Wales
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905125194
• ISBN 13: 9781905125197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II.