The starting point of the author’s considerations is one of Cicero’s forensic speeches in a civil case, Oratio pro Caecina. But the main purpose of this article is to answer the following question: was Cicero a jurist or not? For many years, this problem was controversial for Romanists, historians and theoreticians of rhetoric. The author puts forward two hypotheses – firstly, a historical one, and secondly a modern one. In the light of the former, Cicero was not a jurist, because in court he played the role of a Roman advocatus and Roman iurisconsultus. From the modern perspective the problem is more complicated – he was a jurist in the modern sense, even if he was not a jurist in today’s meaning. The author’s analysis is constructed more ...
A Review of The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero\u27s Pro Caecina by Bruce W. Frie
Historical narratives have limited scholarly appreciation of the impact of rhetoric on the developme...
In Rechtsromanistik und Latinistik haben Methodik, Rhetorik und Topik Konjunktur. Erstaunlicherweise...
textTraditional accounts of ancient law make the following generalizations: Athenian law was a syste...
textTraditional accounts of ancient law make the following generalizations: Athenian law was a syste...
This chapter surveys the reception of Cicero’s writings as well as of the figure of Cicero in the ju...
Roman legal advocacy and legal expertise have long been viewed as two different fields of occupation...
In the first book of Cicero’s De oratore (1.175-184) Crassus criticizes the shameless (impudentia) ...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
In De Legibus, Marcus, as the principal speaker and stand-in for Cicero, describes law as right reas...
The article contains a description of the Ciceronian rhetoric didactics in the Silesian humanistic ...
A Review of The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero\u27s Pro Caecina by Bruce W. Frie
Historical narratives have limited scholarly appreciation of the impact of rhetoric on the developme...
In Rechtsromanistik und Latinistik haben Methodik, Rhetorik und Topik Konjunktur. Erstaunlicherweise...
textTraditional accounts of ancient law make the following generalizations: Athenian law was a syste...
textTraditional accounts of ancient law make the following generalizations: Athenian law was a syste...
This chapter surveys the reception of Cicero’s writings as well as of the figure of Cicero in the ju...
Roman legal advocacy and legal expertise have long been viewed as two different fields of occupation...
In the first book of Cicero’s De oratore (1.175-184) Crassus criticizes the shameless (impudentia) ...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
Cicero’s De officiis is one of the most important texts in Roman ethics, and one of the most cited l...
In De Legibus, Marcus, as the principal speaker and stand-in for Cicero, describes law as right reas...
The article contains a description of the Ciceronian rhetoric didactics in the Silesian humanistic ...
A Review of The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero\u27s Pro Caecina by Bruce W. Frie
Historical narratives have limited scholarly appreciation of the impact of rhetoric on the developme...
In Rechtsromanistik und Latinistik haben Methodik, Rhetorik und Topik Konjunktur. Erstaunlicherweise...