Form and function in Roman oratory / edited by D.H. Berry and Andrew Erskine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521768955
  • 0521768950
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 875/.0109 22
LOC classification:
  • PA6083 .F67 2010
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Contents:
Form and function / D. H. Berry and Andrew Erskine -- Court procedure and rhetorical strategy in Cicero / J. G. F. Powell -- Tribunician sacrosanctity and oratorical performance in the late republic / Catherine Steel -- Togate statues and petrified orators / Glenys Davies -- Means and ends of Indignatio in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino / Christopher Craig -- Form as global strategy in Cicero's Second Catilinarian / Andrew M. Riggsby -- The form and function of narrative in panegyric / Roger Rees -- Unending praise: Pliny and ending panegyric / Bruce Gibson -- The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero's De harvspicvm responsis / Anthony Corbeill -- Debate at a distance: a unique rhetorical strategy in Cicero's Thirteenth Philippic / John T. Ramsey -- The function of verse quotations in Apuleius' speeches: making the case with Plato Regine May -- Teaching philosophy, a form or function of Roman oratory: Velleius' speech in Cicero's De Natvra Deorvm / Carl Joachim Classen -- Form and function of speech in the prose work of the younger Seneca / Harry Hine -- Catiline's speeches in Sallust's Bellvm Catilinae / William W. Batstone -- Speech and silence in Caesar's Bellvm Gallicvm / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Rhetorical history: the struggle of the orders in Livy / Christopher Smith -- Oratory in Tacitus' Annals / Roland Mayer -- Aliena Facvndia: Seneca in Tacitus / A. J. Woodman.
Summary: "In this book Roman oratory is explored from the perspective of form and function. Leading scholars in the field of Latin prose consider not only the speeches of Cicero, Pliny, Apuleius and the later panegyrists, but also those found in Roman philosophical writing, and in the histories of Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. In each case, analysis of the interplay of form and function takes us to the heart of the process by which the author's aims are realised. The book also considers the functions of texts within speeches, the functions of not speaking and the representation of oratorical 'form' in Roman sculpture. An original and wide-ranging study, Form and Function in Roman Oratory will appeal to scholars and students with interests in Roman oratory, historiography, philosophy and art"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and indexes.

Form and function / D. H. Berry and Andrew Erskine -- Court procedure and rhetorical strategy in Cicero / J. G. F. Powell -- Tribunician sacrosanctity and oratorical performance in the late republic / Catherine Steel -- Togate statues and petrified orators / Glenys Davies -- Means and ends of Indignatio in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino / Christopher Craig -- Form as global strategy in Cicero's Second Catilinarian / Andrew M. Riggsby -- The form and function of narrative in panegyric / Roger Rees -- Unending praise: Pliny and ending panegyric / Bruce Gibson -- The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero's De harvspicvm responsis / Anthony Corbeill -- Debate at a distance: a unique rhetorical strategy in Cicero's Thirteenth Philippic / John T. Ramsey -- The function of verse quotations in Apuleius' speeches: making the case with Plato Regine May -- Teaching philosophy, a form or function of Roman oratory: Velleius' speech in Cicero's De Natvra Deorvm / Carl Joachim Classen -- Form and function of speech in the prose work of the younger Seneca / Harry Hine -- Catiline's speeches in Sallust's Bellvm Catilinae / William W. Batstone -- Speech and silence in Caesar's Bellvm Gallicvm / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Rhetorical history: the struggle of the orders in Livy / Christopher Smith -- Oratory in Tacitus' Annals / Roland Mayer -- Aliena Facvndia: Seneca in Tacitus / A. J. Woodman.

"In this book Roman oratory is explored from the perspective of form and function. Leading scholars in the field of Latin prose consider not only the speeches of Cicero, Pliny, Apuleius and the later panegyrists, but also those found in Roman philosophical writing, and in the histories of Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. In each case, analysis of the interplay of form and function takes us to the heart of the process by which the author's aims are realised. The book also considers the functions of texts within speeches, the functions of not speaking and the representation of oratorical 'form' in Roman sculpture. An original and wide-ranging study, Form and Function in Roman Oratory will appeal to scholars and students with interests in Roman oratory, historiography, philosophy and art"--Provided by publisher.

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