Making a new man : Ciceronian self-fashioning in the rhetorical works
Dugan, JohnAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
Cicero is known as Rome's greatest orator, which was precisely his plan. This book shows how Cicero used culturally ambitious works on the nature and history of oratory to fashion his identity as the supreme Roman public speaker and stylist.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Cicero is known as Rome's greatest orator, which was precisely his plan. This book shows how Cicero used culturally ambitious works on the nature and history of oratory to fashion his identity as the supreme Roman public speaker and stylist.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Epideixis, textuality, and self-fashioning in the Pro archia and In Pisonem -- Fashioning the ideal orator : theatricality and transgressive aesthetics in the De oratore -- The Brutus : Cicero's 'rhetorical' history -- The orator : fashioning a Ciceronian sublime.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Self in literature
Rhetoric, Ancient
Oratory, Ancient
Orators
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures
Languages & Literatures