Brian A. Krostenko

The Voices of the Consul (eBook, PDF)

The Rhetorics of Cicero's de lege agraria I and II

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Produktbeschreibung

The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to the senate, the second to the people. Through a close and novel linguistic analysis, Brian A. Krostenko draws out Cicero's idealistic visions and shows how Cicero's apparently diffuse attacks on various clauses of an agrarian bill are informed by a consistent and idealistic vision of the functioning of the Roman state in which the people are to take their sovereignty seriously and the senate is to regard its high position responsibly. Cicero's speeches turned a critique of a single law into a politico manifesto-a worthy objective for a new consul. By a close comparison of corresponding passages from the speeches, the book clarifies Cicero's masterful adaptations of his audiences' knowledge of political concepts, civic spaces, legal procedures, and other cultural practices. By revealing Cicero's rhetorical technique and the ideology implicit in these speeches, The Voices of the Consul provides a more complete picture of his understanding of Roman politics and his own role within it at the beginning of his consular career.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199838134
• Artikelnr.: 69529786

Autorenporträt

Brian A. Krostenko is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame and author of Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements.
* Foreword.
* Abbreviations.
* Chapter One. The Rhetoric and Politics of de lege agraria I and II
* Chapter Two. Anxiety and Responsibility
* Chapter Three. Responsibility and Anxiety
* Chapter Four. Libertas and the Duty of Oversight
* Chapter Five. Commodum and the Fear of Exclusion
* Chapter Six. Ideologies of Identity: Cicero and Rullus
* Chapter Seven. Images of Identity: Pompey, Rullus, and Cicero
* Chapter Eight. Dignitas
* Chapter Nine. Capua and the ager Campanus, or the ager Campanus and
Capua
* Appendix 1. Table of Major Divisions
* Appendix 2. The Rhetorical Structure of the Treatments of Capua and
the ager Campanus
* Appendix 3. The Rhetorical Stucture of the Treatment of the Placement
of Colonies
* Works Cited