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The voices of the consul : the rhetorics of Cicero's "De lege agraria I" and "II"
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ISBN: 9780199734207 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press,

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The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to the senate, the second to the people. Through a close and novel linguistic analysis, Brian A. Krostenko draws out Cicero's idealistic visions and shows how Cicero's apparently diffuse attacks on various clauses of an agrarian bill are informed by a consistent and idealistic vision of the functioning of the Roman state in which the people are to take their sovereignty seriously and the senate is to regard its high position responsibly. Cicero's speeches turned a critique of a single law into a politico manifesto-a worthy objective for a new consul. By a close comparison of corresponding passages from the speeches, the book clarifies Cicero's masterful adaptations of his audiences' knowledge of political concepts, civic spaces, legal procedures, and other cultural practices. By revealing Cicero's rhetorical technique and the ideology implicit in these speeches, The Voices of the Consul provides a more complete picture of his understanding of Roman politics and his own role within it at the beginning of his consular career.


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Paul and the rhetoric of resurrection : 1 Corinthians 15 as insinuatio
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ISBN: 9789004527904 9004527907 9789004527911 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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"Have you ever wondered why Paul leaves the resurrection discussion in 1 Corinthians 15 for the end of the letter? Have you pondered how 1 Corinthians 15 functions as the climax to 1 Corinthians? This book answers those questions by exploring insinuatio, the Greco-Roman rhetorical convention used to address prejudiced or controversial topics-like resurrection-at the end of a discourse. This is the most thorough treatment of insinuatio in Biblical and Classical studies to date. It examines the Greco-Roman rhetorical handbooks and speeches on insinuatio, compares them to what Paul does in 1 Corinthians 15, and finds that this was precisely Paul's rhetorical strategy in 1 Corinthians"--


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Augustine, martyrdom, and classical rhetoric
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ISBN: 0190914173 0190914157 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press

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Early Christian martyr accounts were less about recounting history than about constructing theology. As such, we may call them 'rhetorical,' and indeed many historians of late antique Christianity have done so. But what does this mean for early Christian theology of martyrdom? And what rhetorical techniques are actually being used for such theological construction? This book answers these questions by reading the martyr discourse of Augustine of Hippo in the context of classical rhetorical theory and practice.


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Proclo - lo stile e il sistema della teologia
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ISBN: 9783111084978 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boston : De Gruyter,

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Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the face of the gradual rise of Christianity.His writing bears witness not only to one of the most influential metaphysical representations for the constitution of the idea of a philosophical "system" based on a complex "language game" based on the conceptual sphere of "order" and "unity", but also of an attempt to reconcile rhetorics with philosophy. In the three chapters in which the book is structured (style, system, unity), then, a conscious intention is evident in Proclus, to adapt the content of his systematic metaphysics to literary form. Hence there is a consistency traced in Proclus' stylistic choices , with the aesthetic norms of a rhetorical canon, probably established in the cycle of readings of the Neoplatonic school.The way in which expressive "art" is subordinated in Proclus to philosophy is one of the most emblematic examples of a development in late antiquity, that of the enkuklios paideia – the union of all the arts necessary for the formation of man – that would later constitute in the Latin world the cycle of liberal arts.


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Stock characters speaking : eight Libanian declamations introduced and translated
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ISBN: 9780472220946 Year: 2023 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive interest in late antiquity, a newly sympathetic interest in rhetoric (including ancient declamation), and a desire to bring Libanius's massive corpus into English and other modern languages. In this book, author Robert J. Penella translates eight of Libanius's declamations: 29, 30, 34, 35, 37, 45, 46, 47, and, in an appendix, the thirteenth-century Gregory of Cyprus's response to Declamation 34. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction, in which Penella examines the themes, structure, and the stasis, or key issue, of the declamations. Figures who appear in the translated declamations include a parasite who has lost his patron, a man envious of his rich neighbor, a miser's son, a poor man willing to die for his city, a rich war-hero accused of aiming at tyranny, and a convict asking for exile. Three of these declamations have appeared in German; otherwise, these translations are the first into a modern language.


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Pathways through early modern Christianities
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ISBN: 3412526088 341252607X 9783412526085 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paderborn, Germany : Böhlau,

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Discours xiv-xix : L'empereur espagnol
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ISBN: 9782251006512 2251006516 9782251006550 2251006559 9782251006581 2251006583 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres,

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La partie rhétorique de l'œuvre de Thémistios comportait au minimum trente-quatre discours. Les numéros I-XIX qui concernent quatre empereurs (Constance II, Jovien, Valens et Théodose Ier) ont une portée avant tout politique et historique. L'orateur adopte souvent les accents du panégyrique, mais néanmoins se révèle un conseiller judicieux et habile ainsi qu'un analyste réaliste des ressources de l'Empire, et défend le pacifisme dans les relations internationales. En outre, il trouve le moyen de construire une justification philosophique de l'absolutisme dont l'Empire byzantin répercutera les leçons, essentiellement à partir du XIIIe siècle. L'Empire romain d'Orient avait failli périr corps et biens quand Gratien se résolut à nommer un Hispanique, Théodose, pour en tenir le gouvernail. Sous le règne de ce dernier, Thémistios, en devenant préfet de Constantinople, atteignit le sommet de sa carrière politique. Avec l'accord du nouveau prince, il put ainsi, au moins pendant quelques mois, continuer à prôner ses thèses pacifistes : le souverain ne peut se maintenir en toute sécurité que s'il impose la clémence aussi bien à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur. Certains des discours font entendre encore les dissensions régnant sur les travées du Sénat à Constantinople.


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Greek declamation and the Roman empire
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ISBN: 9781009297127 9781009297158 9781009297141 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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"A Greek declamation was an 'imaginary speech': a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious genre in their own right. This first monograph on Greek declamation for nearly forty years re-evaluates a genre that was central to Greek imperial literature and to ancient and modern notions of the 'Second Sophistic'. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', this book considers the significance of Greek declamation's reenactment of classical history for its own times and integrates the genre into the wider history of the period. It shows through extended readings how the genre came to constitute a powerful and subtle instrument of identity formation and social interaction, and a site for free thinking on issues of major contemporary importance such as imperialism and inter-polis relations"--

Rhetoric and poetics in antiquity.
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ISBN: 1280472480 1423738799 0195351460 1602563772 9781423738794 9780195130355 0195130359 9781280472480 0195130359 0197705065 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view rhetoric as an art of practical civic oratory, this book argues in four extended essays that epideictic and poetic eloquence was central to the rhetorical tradition in antiquity.


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Sur les états de cause d'Hermogène
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ISBN: 2251006540 9782251006543 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Les Belles Lettres,

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Le présent ouvrage édite ce qui nous a été conservé du commentaire du Περὶ στάσεων (De statibus ; Sur les états de cause) d’Hermogène composé par Marcellinus. Ce commentaire continue la tradition représentée pour nous par ceux de Sopatros, Eustathe, Georges d’Alexandrie, Syrianus et le Pseudo-Sopatros. Il ne nous a pas été transmis séparément, mais inclus dans une compilation dite compilation. Cette dernière emprunte principalement à trois auteurs généralement cités dans l’ordre suivant : Syrianus, Sopatros, Marcellinus. La réunion, à propos d’un extrait du traité d’Hermogène, de diverses exégèses qui en ont été faites, constitue un certain historique de la question et donc les exégèses sont généralement proposées dans un ordre chronologique. Le commentaire de Syrianus est datable du premier quart du Ve s. On en déduit que Marcellinus a probablement rédigé son commentaire dans la deuxième moitié du Ve s. La question se pose de la pertinence d’une édition séparée des exégèses empruntées par le compilateur à Marcellinus. D’une part, elle coupe ces extraits du contexte qui en éclaire certains côtés. Le compilateur choisit en effet chaque emprunt en fonction des autres, soit qu’il aborde autrement la doctrine, soit qu’il la complète. D’autre part, elle dépèce l’œuvre réalisée par le compilateur, qui répond à un projet et a sa valeur en soi. En revanche, et cela suffit à la justifier, elle participe à l’effort de la philologie moderne pour nous restituer les œuvres du passé. Le texte est celui d’un pédagogue soucieux de faire bien comprendre à ses auditeurs, ou lecteurs, une doctrine considérée à son époque comme essentielle à la formation rhétorique. On est dans le cadre de la rhétorique d’école et le but de cet enseignement est notamment de permettre la déclamation de discours appliqués aux divers cas répertoriés par la théorie des états de cause.

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