Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 2020
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2020 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. This volume places the literariness of Roman declamation into the spotlight by showcasing its theoretical influences, stylistic devices, and generic conventions as related by Seneca the Elder, the author of the Controversiae and Suasoriae, which jointly make up the largest surviving collection of declamatory speeches from antiquity. Authored by an international group of leading scholars of Latin literature and rhetoric, the chapters explore not only the historical roles of individual declaimers, but also the physical and linguistic techniques upon which they collectively drew. In addition, the 'dark side of declamation' is illuminated by contributions on the competitiveness of the arena and the manipulative potential of declamatory skill and, in keeping with the overall treatment of declamation as a literary phenomenon, a section has also been dedicated to intertextuality. Drawing on thought-provoking analyses of Seneca the Elder's works, the volume highlights the complexity of these texts and maps out, for the first time, the socio-cultural context for their composition, delivery, and reception, as well as providing a comprehensive, innovative, and up-to-date treatment of Roman declamation that will be essential for both students and scholars in the fields of Latin literature, Republican Roman history, and rhetoric. 1. Introduction: What Is Declamation? - Martin T. Dinter and Charles Guerin I. DECLAIMERS AND DECLAMATION 2. The Bitter Medicine of History: Seneca the Elder on the Genre of Declamation - Yelena Baraz 3. Seneca and the Past - Martin T. Dinter 4. Greek Declaimers, Roman Context: (De)constructing Cultural Identity in Seneca the Elder - Charles Guérin 5. Nomination and Systematization in Seneca's Controversiae - Orazio Cappello II. PHYSICAL TECHNIQUE: ACTIO 6. Physical Excess as a Marker of Genre in the Elder Seneca - Anthony Corbeill 7. Between Real and Fictional Eloquence: Some Observations on the Actio of Porcius Latro and Albucius Silus - Andrea Balbo III. LINGUISTIC TECHNIQUE: MOTIFS AND DEVICES 8. The Ocean (Seneca Suas. 1): Community Rules for a Common Literary Topic - Bart Huelsenbeck 9. The Mythical Exempla of Faithful Heroines in Seneca the Elder's Work: Literary Occurrences of a Declamatory Device - Beatrice Larosa 10. The Rhetoric of Decline and the Rhetoric for Declamatio - Christopher S. van den Berg IV. THE DARK SIDE OF DECLAMATION 11. Objection! Contesting Taste and Space in Seneca's Declamatory Arena - Jonathan E. Mannering 12. Color Medius or the Colour of Suspicion - Yazmín Victoria Huerta Cabrera 13. Laughing Is No Laughing Matter: Laughs and Laughter in Seneca the Elder's Oeuvre - Catherine Schneider V. INTERTEXTUALITY 14. Intertextuality in Seneca the Elder - Julien Pingoud and Alessandra Rolle 15. The Use of the Apostrophe and the Fictionality of Declamation - Stefan Feddern 16. Controversial Games: Didactical Voices and the Construction of Discourse in Seneca's Controversiae and Suasoriae - Danielle van Mal-Maeder.…
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- Title
- Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder
- Author
- Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guerin, Marcos Martinho, Yelena Baraz, Orazio Cappello, Anthony Corbeill, Andrea Balbo, Bart Huelsenbeck, Beatrice Larosa, Christopher S. van den Berg, Jonathan E. Mannering, Yazmin Victoria Huerta Cabrera, Catherine Schneider, Julien Pingoud, Alessandra Rolle, Stefan Feddern, Danielle van Mal-Maeder
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198746016
- ISBN 13
- 9780198746010
- Seller catalogs
- Ancient World
Authored by an international group of leading scholars of Latin literature and rhetoric, the chapters explore not only the historical roles of individual declaimers, but also the physical and linguistic techniques upon which they collectively drew. In addition, the 'dark side of declamation' is illuminated by contributions on the competitiveness of the arena and the manipulative potential of declamatory skill and, in keeping with the overall treatment of declamation as a literary phenomenon, a section has also been dedicated to intertextuality. Drawing on thought-provoking analyses of Seneca the Elder's works, the volume highlights the complexity of these texts and maps out, for the first time, the socio-cultural context for their composition, delivery, and reception, as well as providing a comprehensive, innovative, and up-to-date treatment of Roman declamation that will be essential for both students and scholars in the fields of Latin literature, Republican Roman history, and rhetoric.
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About the Author
Charles Guérin is Professor of Latin Literature at Sorbonne Université, Paris. He has published monographs on the rhetorical notion of persona (J. Vrin, 2009; J. Vrin, 2011) and on witness testimony in the Roman courts of the first century BC (La Voix de la vérité; 2015), and has also edited and co-edited several volumes on ancient rhetoric, oratory, declamation, and literature. A former junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he is a member of the council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (2018-2021) and the executive committee of L'Année Philologique.
Marcos Martinho dos Santos is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a specialist in ancient rhetoric and in addition has published extensively on ancient grammarians and mythographers. He also serves on the editorial boards of nine Classics related journals and has edited and co-edited six volumes on Roman declamation, Cicero, and Greek mythology. He is currently preparing a book length study on Hyginus.
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