Brill's companion to Cicero : : oratory and rhetoric / / edited by James M. May.

• TeilnehmendeR: May, James M.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (646 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume is intended as a companion to the study of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric for both students and experts in the field: for the neophyte, it provides a starting point; for the veteran Ciceronian scholar, a place for renewing the dialogue about issues concerning Ciceronian oratory and rhetoric; for all, a site of engagement at various levels with Ciceronian scholarship and bibliography. The book is arranged along roughly chronological lines and covers most aspects of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric. The particular strength of this companion resides in the individual, often very original approach to sundry topics by an array of impressive contributors, all of whom have spent large portions of their careers concentrating upon the oratorical and rhetorical oeuvre of Cicero. A bibliography of relevant items from the past 25 years, keyed to specific Ciceronian works, completes the volume. Brill's Companion to Cicero will become the standard reference work on Cicero for many years.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / James M May -- Cicero: His Life and Career / James M. May -- Rhetorical Education in Cicero’s Youth / Anthony Corbeill -- Ciceronian Oratory in Context / James M. May -- Cicero’s Early Speeches / Ann Vasaly -- Cicero’s Consular Speeches / Robert W. Cape Jr. -- The Post Reditum Speeches / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Ciceronian Invective / Anthony Corbeill -- Cicero’s Caesarian Orations / Harold C. Gotoff -- The Philippics / Jon Hall -- The Lost and Fragmentary Orations / Jane W. Crawford -- The Intellectual Background of Cicero’s Rhetorical Works / Jakob Wisse -- De Oratore: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and The Making of the Ideal Orator / Jakob Wisse -- Brutus: The History of Roman Eloquence / Emanuele Narducci -- Orator and the Definition of the Ideal Orator / Emanuele Narducci -- Cicero’s Partitiones Oratoriae and Topica: Rhetorical Philosophy and Philosophical Rhetoric / Robert N. Gaines -- Cicero’s Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacy / George A. Kennedy -- A Survey of Selected Recent Work on Cicero’s Rhetorica and Speeches / Christopher P. Craig -- Bibliography / Christopher P. Craig -- General Index / James M. May -- Index Locorum / James M. May.