Creative Eloquence
The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 November 2010
- ISBN 9780199291557
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 241x171x31 mm
- Weight 850 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A study of the orations of the Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 BC). Ingo Gildenhard does not treat them simply as models of eloquence, as previous critics have done, but as repositories for Cicero's most profound thinking on such perennial questions as the ethics of happiness, the notion of conscience, and the problem of divine justice.
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The statesman Cicero (106-43 BC) left behind a corpus of about 50 orations, all designed as interventions in the legal and political struggles that marked the final decades of the Roman republic. Ever since their publication during his lifetime they have functioned as models of eloquence. However, they also contain profound philosophical thoughts on the question of being human, on politics, society, and culture, and on the sphere of the divine. Now, for the first time, Ingo Gildenhard systematically analyses this dimension of Cicero's oratory and, in so doing, touches upon many key issues and concepts that still preoccupy us today, such as the ethics of happiness or the notion of conscience, the distinction between civilization and barbarity, or the problem of divine justice.
Gildenhard's book is a comprehensive study of the ways in which Cicero's oratory ... depolyed theoretically informed modes of thinking
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Cicero's philosophical oratory
I. Anthropology
Introduction: Ethopoiea and anthropopoiesis
Being human
Human beings
The good, the bad, and the in-between
Mental states
II. Sociology
Introduction: Imagining community
Definition and the politics of truth
Laws and justice
Civilization and its discontents
Coping with Caesar
III. Theology
Introduction: Rome's civic religion
Ontological elevation and divine favouritism
Cicero's theodicy
Tyranny and the divine
Life after death
Conclusion
