Published by University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0520201787 ISBN 13: 9780520201781
Seller: Hopkins Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First trade paperback edition, published by Univ.of California Press, 1996. Vasaly presents context; social, political, topological, to form a crucial understanding of Ciceronian oratory. 300 pages with Index, Bibliography, 6" X 9". No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. No creases to the cover or spine. There are some streaks of bubbling to the coating of the cover on the spine panel - a printing issue more than a wear issue. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Published by University of California Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0520077555 ISBN 13: 9780520077553
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Condition: Used - Like New. 1ST. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. 301 Pages. Fine.
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Published by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1985
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Offprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-20. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise a good and clean copy. - From the text: No theoretical exposition on the nature of ancient rhetoric could illustrate the connection between judicial oratory and theater better than does this vivid description. The scene makes us think of the opening-night performance of a great actor in a long-awaited play. The attendants go about busily assigning places, the audience pours in, sitting on wooden benches or standing about the periphery. The performer appears and a hush falls over the crowd, soon followed by cheers and applause. He begins to speak, and even one who cannot hear his words can see from the response of the crowd that he has captivated them. The equation of Cicero's perfect orator to the great Roman actor Roscius makes explicit the sense that pervades the passage: the tribunal is a stage and the orator an actor. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630.
Published by Baltimore (MD): Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 203-226. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: The reader of Livy's first pentad soon becomes aware that people with similar names tend to behave in similar ways. Members of the Valerian gens, for example, are frequently pictured as heroic soldiers and energetic supporters of popular rights: Publius Valerius is associated with Brutus and Collatinus in the overthrow of the Tarquins and wins the cognomen Publicola for championing the rights of the people; Manius Valerius, elected dictator in the midst of internal strife and external threat, fights a signally successful military campaign and thereafter delivers a stirring plea to the Senate on behalf of plebeian rights; L. Valerius Potitus, like his ancestor Publius, plays an important role in the recovery of libertas and the establishment of the rights of the plebeians. The Servilii also display a similarity of character and action within the first pentad: Publius Servilius is the author of a compromise that averts disaster during plebeian agitation for reform of the laws concerning debt, and other Servilii likewise appear at critical junctures to resolve internal faction and restore concordia in the state. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630.
Published by Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2002
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Offprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp.275-290. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - From the text: I would like to begin this discussion of Livy's first pentad with an unfashionable foray into authorial intention. Let us say that Livy embarked on his vast history of the Roman people shortly after the battle of Actium in 31 B.C., an event that in retrospect can be seen to signal the end to almost a century of civil wars, but that, at the time, might have seemed but a pause in the long succession of bloody internal struggles that had gripped the body politic since the Gracchi.1 The first question facing the historian was where to begin. Few would have faulted him if his history had excluded the legends and myths connected with the founding of Rome and had begun with the institution of the Republic or (like that of Claudius Quadrigarius) with the period following the sack of Rome by the Gauls, when traditions and records were somewhat more trustworthy.2 Attempting to write history with any pretense of accuracy, even starting from the latter event, would have been a daunting task, and Livy knew that the greatest of the Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, had by and large confined themselves to the more recent past, where their own autopsy or that of their informants could serve as the basis for arguing the truth of their accounts. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 1107667941 ISBN 13: 9781107667945
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Published by University of California Press Ltd, Berkley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1993
ISBN 10: 0520077555 ISBN 13: 9780520077553
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Hardcover. Condition: See Notes. 1st Edition. Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory, Ann Vasaly. Published by University of California Press Ltd., Berkley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1993. First Edition. Blue cloth boards, blue spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 301 pages including bibliography, general index, index of ancient authors, illustrations. In mint, unread condition; unclipped dustjacket has light scuffing otherwise fine. Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu¿social, political, topographical¿is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art. Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world¿places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely mentioned¿to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally well-written study deftly recaptures the immediacy of Cicero's oratory and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies.
Published by Berkeley: University of Californioa Press (1993), 1993
Seller: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australia
225X150: xii,302pp. black and white illustrations, index. Paperback, Very Good. ISBN: 0 520 20178 7 , Weight: 470g. .
Published by Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps. Notes : Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and indexes. Subject : Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Speeches. 1 Kg.
Published by Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description : (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps. Notes : Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and indexes. Subject : Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Speeches. 1 Kg.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1107065674 ISBN 13: 9781107065673
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hard cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is lightly worn, particularly along edges. Spine is cocked. Inside is heavily marked with pencil.
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Published by University of California Press Berkeley 1993, 1993
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xii + 301pp., maps, bibliog., indexes,
Published by University of California Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0520077555 ISBN 13: 9780520077553
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Condition: Gut. 301 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Dedication by the author to Prof. Haase and his wife. - Dust jacket a bit rubbed, else good and clean. - Ancient oratory demanded much of the speaker. Trained to anticipate various exigencies, the ancient orator responded immediately to circumstances: the reaction of his audience, the attacks of opponents, or the specific ambiance that prevailed at the time of his performance. Cicero, for example, delivered speeches that exhibited the formal structure and polish of sophisticated literary productions, yet his oratory also reflected the spontaneity and immediacy of extemporaneous creation. Previous studies of Cicero's speeches considered them as static entities, interesting chiefly for their fidelity or lack of fidelity to the prescriptions of ancient rhetorical theory. Recently scholars have explored the speeches as "documents of progressive persuasion," but these studies consider the speeches as written texts rather than as reflections of original performances. In Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory, Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion. Vasaly views Latin literature as an expression of a particular time and place, and contends that an understanding of milieu social, political, topographical is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre of literature uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction within a setting of author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art. Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely alluded to or described to his listeners and demonstrates how Cicero used these representations to persuade. In her analysis of the role of ambiance in Cicero's rhetorical strategy, Vasaly recaptures the immediacy of his oratory and arrives at an understanding of a semiotics of space in Ciceronian culture. Exceptionally well written and accessible to a broad audience, this book offers an original perspective on the study of ancient rhetoric and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies. - ANN VASALY is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. ISBN 9780520077553 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 16,5 x 2,5 x 24,1 cm, Original cloth with dust jacket.