Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gildenhard, Ingo, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 454 p.)

Other Title:

Creative eloquence: the construction of reality in Cicero's speeches

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-159488-1

0-19-929155-1