Cicero's Accretive Style: Rhetorical Strategies in the Exordia of the Judicial Speeches - Hardcover

Steven M. Cerutti

 
9780761804383: Cicero's Accretive Style: Rhetorical Strategies in the Exordia of the Judicial Speeches
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0761804382 ISBN 13: 9780761804383
Publisher: University Press of America (UK), 1996

Synopsis

Ciceros Accretive Style is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian exordium and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the exordia of a selection of Ciceros judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the exordium as he himself defined them. The speeches selected for study include the Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, and Pro Rege Deiotaro, and cover the span of Ciceros career. The focus of the analysis is on Ciceros accretive style—not a rhetorical device in the formal sense, but a conscious, stylistic effort whose effect is rhetorical. Because Cicero also wrote important treatises on oratory and rhetoric, this book measures how closely Cicero followed his own guidelines laid down for the exordium, and how and under what circumstances he deviated or departed from them.

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About the Author

Steven M. Cerutti is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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Publisher
University Press of America (UK)
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761804382
ISBN 13 
9780761804383
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
202