none1noAt the end of the Brutus, Cicero gives a list of the outstanding orators in Roman history, from Cato to Hortensius. If we count the Gracchi as a unity, the list includes ten names, the same number found in the famous canon of the Attic orators. The first part of the article compares the “canon” of the Brutus with similar lists of excellent orators found in Ciceroʼs rhetorical and philosophical works and in other Roman writers. The second section is about the origin of the canon of the Attic orators. Scholars generally ascribe it to the Augustan rhetorician Caecilius of Caleacte, and so deny its existence at Ciceroʼs time. Against this view, passages from Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cicero himself may prove that the canon was alrea...
In the well known episode in the Divination against Caecilius (Divinatio in Caecilium) 27–46, Cicero...
Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of statesman and orator. He me...
By the time Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to compose the brief biographies that introduce his ess...
Why did the first printers in Italy choose Cicero’s de Oratorein 1465? How did itcome to epitomize R...
This dissertation traces the tradition of Orator, Cicero’s late work on oratorical style, through th...
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Classical Studies, 2010The friendship between Cicero and Brutus...
This chapter provides an overview of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) as orator. It surveys the n...
Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher. As well as speeches, letters, an...
The article deals with one of the less known areas of Cicero’s work: his translations from Greek int...
The article deals with one of the less known areas of Cicero’s work: his translations from Greek int...
This thesis explores the construction of the orator and oratory in Roman Imperial Literature and Soc...
This paper studies the significance of humour in Roman oratory, a theme dear to Cicero, who claimed ...
In this dissertation, I challenge ancient narratives of a decline of oratory at the end of the Repub...
Esta tese investiga, em sua primeira parte, a invenção retórica apresentada no Do orador, de Marco T...
International audienceThis article is part of the project carried out by the GRDI Les Mondes Lettrés...
In the well known episode in the Divination against Caecilius (Divinatio in Caecilium) 27–46, Cicero...
Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of statesman and orator. He me...
By the time Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to compose the brief biographies that introduce his ess...
Why did the first printers in Italy choose Cicero’s de Oratorein 1465? How did itcome to epitomize R...
This dissertation traces the tradition of Orator, Cicero’s late work on oratorical style, through th...
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Classical Studies, 2010The friendship between Cicero and Brutus...
This chapter provides an overview of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) as orator. It surveys the n...
Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher. As well as speeches, letters, an...
The article deals with one of the less known areas of Cicero’s work: his translations from Greek int...
The article deals with one of the less known areas of Cicero’s work: his translations from Greek int...
This thesis explores the construction of the orator and oratory in Roman Imperial Literature and Soc...
This paper studies the significance of humour in Roman oratory, a theme dear to Cicero, who claimed ...
In this dissertation, I challenge ancient narratives of a decline of oratory at the end of the Repub...
Esta tese investiga, em sua primeira parte, a invenção retórica apresentada no Do orador, de Marco T...
International audienceThis article is part of the project carried out by the GRDI Les Mondes Lettrés...
In the well known episode in the Divination against Caecilius (Divinatio in Caecilium) 27–46, Cicero...
Cicero saw publication as a means of perpetuating a distinctive image of statesman and orator. He me...
By the time Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to compose the brief biographies that introduce his ess...