|
|
|
books
| book details |
Reading Republican Oratory: Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions
Edited by Christa Gray, Edited by Andrea Balbo, Edited by Richard M. A. Marshall, Edited by Catherine E. W. Steel
|
| on special |
normal price: R 6 464.95
Price: R 6 141.95
|
| book description |
Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding of its workings is dominated by one man, whose texts are the only examples to have survived in complete form since antiquity: Cicero. This collection of essays aims to broaden our conception of the oratory of the Roman Republic by exploring how it was practiced by individuals other than Cicero, whether major statesmen, jobbing lawyers, or, exceptionally, the wives of politicians. It focuses particularly on the surviving fragments of such oratory, with individual essays tackling the challenges posed both by the partial and often unreliable nature of the evidence about these other Roman orators-often known to us chiefly through the tendentious observations of Cicero himself-and the complex intersections of the written fragments and the oral phenomenon. Collectively, the essays are concerned with the methods by which we are able to reconstruct non-Ciceronian oratory and the exploration of new ways of interpreting this evidence to tell us about the content, context, and delivery of those speeches. They are arranged into two thematic Parts, the first addressing questions of reception, selection, and transmission, and the second those of reconstruction, contextualization, and interpretation: together they represent a comprehensive overview of the non-Ciceronian speeches that will be of use to all ancient historians, philologists, and literary classicists with an interest in the oratory of the Roman Republic.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Oxford University Press
Published date | 22 Feb 2018
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 384
Dimensions | 239 x 164 x 30mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 722g
ISBN | 978-0-1987-8820-1
Readership Age |
BISAC | literary criticism / general
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 6 697.95
Price | R 6 362.95
| on special |
|
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
|
|
