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100			_aConnolly, Joy
245			_aState of speech : rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome.
260			_aPrinceton: _bPrinceton University Press, _c2007
300			_axii, 304p. ; _c23.4 cm
365			_aUSD _b22.95
504			_aInclude bibliography and index
520			_aRhetorical 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.
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aLiterature
650			_aPolitical and social views
650			_aCriticism and interpretation
650			_aAncient Rhetoric
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