That Tyrant, Persuasion : : How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World / / J. E. Lendon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Lendon, J. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 5 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire --; 1 Education in the Roman Empire --; 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education --; Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric --; 3 The Carrion Men --; 4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy --; 5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? --; Section III Rhetoric’s Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire --; 6 Monumental Nymphaea --; 7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit --; Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law --; 8 Rhetoric and Roman Law --; 9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law --; 10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law --; Conclusion rhetoric, maker of worlds --; Notes --; Abbreviations of some modern works --; Works cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691221021; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992915; 9783110992878; 9783110749731
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691221021?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: J. E. Lendon.

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes—including one asserting that “he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city.” In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite—and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different.