Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire

by C. E. W. Steel

Overview

This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of political oratory and puts Cicero's attitude to empire, with its limitations and weaknesses, in the context of wider debates among his contemporaries on the problems of empire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199248476
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/02/2002
Series:	Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Romans in the provinces: power, autonomy, and identity2. How to become a Roman: the cases of Archias and Balbus3. Controlling the uncontrollable: Cicero and the generals4. Portrait of the orator as a great man: Cicero on Cicero5. Imperial contextsEpilogue: the limits of oratory

Editorial Reviews

"Essential reading for serious students of Cicero the man and of Ciceronian persuasion."— Religious Studies Review

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