"Making a New Man investigates how Cicero, Rome's most influential orator (106-43 B.C.E.), used a series of treatises on rhetorical theory in order to mould his identity within Roman culture. John Dugan argues that Cicero's rhetorical works - far from being disinterested, purely…
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Cicero is known as Rome's greatest orator, which was precisely his plan. This book shows how Cicero used culturally ambitious works on the nature and history of oratory to fashion his identity as the supreme Roman public speaker and stylist.
"Making a New Man investigates how Cicero, Rome's most influential orator (106-43 B.C.E.), used a series of treatises on rhetorical theory in order to mould his identity within Roman culture. John Dugan argues that Cicero's rhetorical works - far from being disinterested, purely…