That tyrant, persuasion how rhetoric shaped the Roman world
The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I. The strange world of education in the Roman Empire
- Education in the Roman Empire
- The social and historical significance of rhetorical education
- Section II. Killing Julius Caesar as the tyrant of rhetoric
- The carrion men
- Puzzles about the conspiracy
- Who was thinking rhetorically?
- Section III. Rhetoric's curious children : building in the cities of the Roman Empire
- Monumental Nymphaea
- City walls, colonnaded streets, and the rhetorical calculus of civic m-- Section IV. Lizarding, and other adventures in declamation and Roman law
- Rhetoric and Roman law
- The attractions of declamatory law
- Legal puzzles, familiar laws, and laws of rhetoric rejected by Roman law
