Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches
Gildenhard, IngoAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
This is a study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero. Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice.
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This is a study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero. Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Cicero's philosophical oratory -- Anthropology. Introduction : Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis ; Being human ; Human beings ; The good, the bad, and the in-between ; Mental states -- Sociology. Introduction : imagining community. Definition and the politics of truth ; Laws and justice ; Civilization and its discontents ; Coping with Caesar -- Theology. Introduction : Rome's civic religion. Ontological elevation and divine favouritism ; Cicero's theodicy ; Tyranny and the divine ; Life after death ; Conclusion.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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