That Tyrant, Persuasion : How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World
How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire. 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 fo...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press
2022.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • That Tyrant, Persuasion, How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World, J. E. Lendon, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, 1 vol. (329 p.), 978-06-9122-101-4 |
| Summary: | How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire. 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 and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes - including one asserting that "he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city." In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite - and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different |
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| ISBN: | 9780691221021 |
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