Making a new man Ciceronian self-fashioning in the rhetorical works
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.
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| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to e-book |
| Summary: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 388 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| ISBN: | 9780191708152 (ebook) |