Christopher S van den Berg

The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus

Aesthetics and Empire in Ancient Rome

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Re-evaluates Tacitus' dialogue about the limits and possibilities of public speech in the Roman Principate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781107020900
• ISBN-10: 1107020905
• Artikelnr.: 40910797

Autorenporträt

Christopher van den Berg is Assistant Professor of Classics at Amherst College, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: rhetorical beginnings and rhetorical ends
1. The Dialogus and its contexts
2. Interpretations
3. Interstitial strategies and reading around the speeches
4. A world of eloquentia
5. An aetiology of contemporary eloquentia
6. From De oratore to De oratoribus
7. Literary criticism and history: Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian in the Dialogus
Conclusion
Appendix: detailed outline of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus.