Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 March 2002
- ISBN 9780199248476
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 223x144x19 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Cicero manipulated issues relevant to Rome's possession of an empire (provincial extortion, access to citizenship, and the distribution of military commands) in an important group of speeches: the Verrines, de imperio Cn. Pompei, pro Archia, pro Flacco, de provinciis consularibus, and pro Balbo. C.E.W. Steel examines the speeches' rhetorical techniques and aims in detail. Cicero's presentation of empire concentrates on the power wielded by individuals at the expense of wider questions of administrative structures. Thus the problems which arise in the running of an empire can be presented as the result of personal failings rather than endemic to the structures of government - as questions of morality rather than of administration. Steel argues that this concept is fundamentally flawed. The weakness cannot be explained simply as Cicero's lack of insight, but as an inevitable consequence of the uses to which he puts oratory in his political career: comparison with his contemporaries shows other leading figures producing much more radical approaches to the problems of empire.
Her book does, indeed, help us take Cicero's oratory more seriously as negotiations of pressing public issues of the day
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Romans in the provinces: power, autonomy, and identity
How to become a Roman: the cases of Archias and Balbus
Controlling the uncontrollable: Cicero and the generals
Portrait of the orator as a great man: Cicero on Cicero
Imperial contexts
Epilogue: the limits of oratory
