What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no pla…
"Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vib…
Prologue: rhetoric and/as rhetorical pedagogy -- Cicero's Antonius -- On the technē of Isocrates (I) -- On the technē of Isocrates (II) -- In the garden of talking birds: declamation and civic theater -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the notion of rhetorical scholarship -- Epil…
The letters of January to April 43 BC
by Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Willcock, Malcolm M.
fromClassical texts
"Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the Dialogus at a time (ca. 100 CE) when intense scrutiny of the history, the definitions, and the imme…
