"Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or mani…
The politics of naming and individuals' rhetorical identities. Civic and local identities in Athenian rhetoric / Roger Brock -- The two Mantitheuses in Demosthenes 39 and [Demosthenes] 40: a case of Athenian identity theft? / Brenda Griffith-Williams -- Constructing the identity…
"Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or mani…
"Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or mani…
"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…
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.