State of speech : rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome.
- Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007
- xii, 304p. ; 23.4 cm
Include bibliography and index
Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by.
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Politics and government Literature Political and social views Criticism and interpretation Ancient Rhetoric