That Tyrant, Persuasion : : How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World / / 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 foll...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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