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The 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.

Education --- Education. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Rhétorique ancienne. --- Social conditions. --- Rome (Empire). --- Rome --- Conditions sociales. --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Rhetoric --- Political aspects --- Study and teaching --- Civilization --- 30s BC. --- Allegory. --- Ammianus Marcellinus. --- Ancient Rome. --- Areopagitica. --- Atticism. --- Aulus Gellius. --- Autun. --- Books of Kings. --- Caracalla. --- Catiline. --- Cesare Borgia. --- Cesare Lombroso. --- Classical republicanism. --- Classicism. --- Claudian. --- Commodus. --- Counter-Reformation. --- De Inventione. --- De facto. --- Declamation. --- Declaration of Sports. --- Diocletian. --- Disenchantment. --- Domitian. --- Egypt (Roman province). --- Engagement controversy. --- Engagers. --- Enoch Powell. --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Euripides. --- Frontinus. --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture). --- Hellenistic period. --- Herbert Marcuse. --- Hubris. --- Hydra effect. --- Ideology. --- Imperial cult (ancient Rome). --- Impossibility. --- Iniuria. --- Judicial activism. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Late Antiquity. --- Libanius. --- Livy. --- Loeb Classical Library. --- Lucius Junius Brutus. --- Machiavellianism. --- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir). --- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger. --- Mark Antony. --- Mixed government. --- Narcissism. --- Niccolò Machiavelli. --- Of Education. --- Oliver Cromwell. --- Our Choice. --- Pamphylia. --- Parody. --- Pathogen. --- Patrician (ancient Rome). --- Pilgrimage of Grace. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Polyaenus. --- Power of the Sword. --- Praetor. --- Proconsul. --- Puritans. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Quintilian. --- Rab Butler. --- Racism. --- Republicanism. --- Res publica. --- Rhetoric. --- Rhetorica ad Herennium. --- Right of conquest. --- Rivers of Blood speech. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Law. --- Second Sophistic. --- Seneca the Younger. --- Sententiae. --- Sexuality in ancient Rome. --- Sophocles. --- Suetonius. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Faerie Queene. --- The Machiavellian Moment. --- The Other Hand. --- The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. --- Tiberius Gracchus. --- Transvaluation of values. --- Tyrant. --- Ulpian. --- Valentinian (play). --- Volumnia.