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

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, a...

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Creative eloquence: the construction of reality in Cicero's speeches
1. Verfasser:
Gildenhard, Ingo
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (vii, 454 p.)
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-159488-1
0-19-929155-1
Schlagworte:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius > Criticism and interpretation.
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