Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond (The Roman World) - Hardcover

 
9781905125197: Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond (The Roman World)

Synopsis

This title includes eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, that examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic.

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About the Author

Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II.

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