Cicero the Advocate

Cicero the Advocate
ISBN-10
0199298297
ISBN-13
9780199298297
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Authors
Jeremy Paterson, J. G. F. Powell

Description

A collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero's forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ancient and modern, analysing Cicero's various techniques of persuasion, and examining a number of speeches in detail as case studies.

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