Conflit Propagandiste Entre Octavien et Marc Antoine
Subtitle: De l'usage de la Uituperatio Entre 44 et 30 A. C. N
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Published: 2016
Language: fre
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9789042934597
Subjects: Augustus, emperor of rome, 63 b.c.-14 a.d.; Antonius, marcus, 83 b.c.?-30 b.c.; Rhetoric, ancient; Rome, history
Description: By blaming each other for obscure and degrading origins, cruelty, cowardice, oratorical and literary incompetence, debaucheries, luxury, drunkenness and other slanders, Octavian and Mark Antony, between 44-30 BC, endeavoured to destroy their respective political foe's reputation in the eyes of various publics. Unfortunately, until now, invectives have not yet benefitted from the academic attention they deserve, which is doubly regrettable as the rhetorical genre of ?uituperatio? is a perfect illustration for the use of propaganda in Antiquity and helps to contest the traditional focus put on coinage and poetry. Through its tripartite structure, the present book offers, for the first time, an encompassing view of the ?uituperatio? of this period, analysed in turn according to the rhetorical themes of the invectives, the public concerned, and the forms and supports by which it is conveyed. It demonstrates that, by its srenuous and fierce expression, the ?uituperatio? not only became a tool of war, but also prefigured the ideological basis of the Augustan Principate.